cupellation
Britishnoun
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the process of recovering precious metals from lead by melting the alloy in a cupel and oxidizing the lead by means of an air blast
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the manufacture of lead oxide by melting and oxidizing lead
Example Sentences
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This process is called cupellation, from being performed in a small crucible called a cupell.
From Heads of Lectures on a Course of Experimental Philosophy: Particularly Including Chemistry by Priestley, Joseph
Gold refined by cupellation Prior to 500 B.C.
From De Re Metallica, Translated from the First Latin Edition of 1556 by Agricola, Georgius
He was familiar with amalgamation, cupellation, the separation of gold and silver by cementation with salt and by nitric acid.
From De Re Metallica, Translated from the First Latin Edition of 1556 by Agricola, Georgius
The coppery skimmings from the cupellation furnace are referred to again in Note 28, p.
From De Re Metallica, Translated from the First Latin Edition of 1556 by Agricola, Georgius
If we still maintain that molybdaena is hearth-lead, and galena is its equivalent, then this passage becomes clear enough, the second melting being cupellation.
From De Re Metallica, Translated from the First Latin Edition of 1556 by Agricola, Georgius
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