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Crossword-Solution: CUPEL 5 letters, 15 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 9

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Cupel n. A shallow porous cup, used in refining precious metals,
commonly made of bone ashes (phosphate of lime).
Cupel v. t. To refine by means of a cupel.

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Assayer's container 1 answer
Assayer's receptacle. 1 answer
Assayer's vessel 1 answer
Assaying vessel. 1 answer
Gold-assaying cup 1 answer
Porous cup used in assaying. 1 answer
Porous pot 1 answer
REFINE vessel used 1 answer
Receptacle in which gold and silver are refined. 1 answer
Silver refiner 1 answer
gold vessel 1 answer
assayer 8 answers
Assayer concern 10 answers
ASSAYER CUP 11 answers
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Unscramble CUPEL5-letter words that start with C5-letter words that end in L5-letter words containing UP5-letter words containing EL5-letter words with C and U

Sentences with CUPEL (5)

His words had a passion in them not usual in the calm, pure flow most natural to his uttered thoughts; white-hot iron we are familiar with, but white-hot silver is what we do not often look upon, and his inspiring address glowed like silver fresh from the cupel.
The Complete PG Works of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (The Physician and Poet not the Jurist) 2004
Then a little lead (also weighed) is rolled up with the flake of silver and the two are melted at a great heat in a small vessel called a cupel, made by compressing bone ashes into a cup-shape in a steel mold.
Roughing It, Part 4. Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) 2004
The essential property of a cupel is, that it is sufficiently porous to allow the fused oxide to drain into it as fast as it is formed.
A Textbook of Assaying: For the Use of Those Connected with Mines. Cornelius Beringer and John Jacob Beringer 2006
They consist of three parts (1) a hollow cylinder; (2) a disc of metal; and (3) a piston for compressing the bone ash and shaping the top of the cupel.
A Textbook of Assaying: For the Use of Those Connected with Mines. Cornelius Beringer and John Jacob Beringer 2006
The bone ash is then pressed into shape with the piston, and the cupel finished with the help of three or four smart blows from a mallet.
A Textbook of Assaying: For the Use of Those Connected with Mines. Cornelius Beringer and John Jacob Beringer 2006
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Appears in: Newsday, NYT, Universal.

Used 11 times in crossword archives (1943–2008).