Definition of Cupeling

1. cupel [v] - See also: cupel

Lexicographical Neighbors of Cupeling

cupboardfuls
cupboardless
cupboardlike
cupboards
cupboardsful
cupboardwise
cupboardy
cupcake
cupcakeries
cupcakery
cupcakes
cupel
cupeled
cupeler
cupelers
cupeling (current term)
cupellation
cupellations
cupelled
cupeller
cupellers
cupelling
cupels
cupferron
cupferrons
cupflower
cupful
cupfuls
cupgall
cupgalls

Literary usage of Cupeling

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Transactions of the American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical and (1921)
"Mitchell" says the litharge fume in cupeling is "produced by the vapor of lead ... So the rate at which the precious metals withdraw into the cupeling bead ..."

2. Transactions by American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical, and Petroleum Engineers, Metallurgical Society of AIME, Society of Mining Engineers of AIME., Society for Mining, Metallurgy, and Exploration (U.S.). (1921)
"Mitchell" says the litharge fume in cupeling is "produced by the vapor of lead ... So the rate at which the precious metals withdraw into the cupeling bead ..."

3. Hydrometallurgy of Silver: With Special Reference to Chloridizing Roasting by Ottokar Hofmann (1907)
"If the refining is done on the lead bath usually English cupeling furnaces are used, which are so constructed that the test can be dipped toward the front ..."

4. Chemical Abstracts by American Chemical Society (1916)
"... cupeling furnace of 30000 oz capacity. The crude Ag assayed about 860 fine. After about 24 hrs. in the cupeling furnace it was ..."

5. International Library of Technology: A Series of Textbooks for Persons by International Textbook Company (1908)
"26, both cupeling and melting can be carried on at the same time, thus permitting a number of charges to be melted during the day. ..."

6. The Mineral Industry by Richard Pennefather Rothwell (1915)
"As to the modern processes for refining, he gives in detail a description of the Homestake method, which uses a cupeling furnace for smelting the acid- ..."

7. A Manual of Fire Assaying by Charles Herman Fulton (1907)
"The bead has been in a state of surfusion, ie, in a state of fusion below its true freezing-point, toward the last of the cupeling operation; ..."

8. The Metallurgists and Chemists' Handbook: A Reference Book of Tables and by Donald M. Liddell (1918)
"Instead of cupeling the lead button, hammer it free from slag and dissolve it in dilute nitric acid. Most of the silver passes into solution together with ..."

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