cupellation
cupellation is defined in Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913) with 1 sense, and appears in Roget's Thesaurus (1911) with 40 related terms. The full text of each entry is reproduced verbatim below.
Definitions
- 1.The act or process of refining gold or silver, etc., in a cupel. Note: The process consist in exposing the cupel containing the metal to be assayed or refined to a hot blast, by which the lead, copper, tin, etc., are oxidized, dissolved, and carried down into the porous cupel, leaving the unoxidizable precious metal. If lead is not already present in the alloy it must be added before cupellation.
Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
Synonyms
Related terms (Roget's 1911)
- bay
- boil
- boiling
- bubble
- bubbly
- chloride
- cohobate
- cohobation
- distill
- distillation
- effervesce
- effervescence
- effervescent
- emit
- evaporable
- evaporate
- evaporation
- exhalation
- exhale
- finestill
- fume
- fumigate
- fumigation
- gaseous
- gasification
- mister
- reek
- render
- retort
- salt
- smoke
- sodium
- sparge
- spray
- steam
- still
- sublime
- transpire
- vapor
- vaporation
Source: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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Sources
- Definitions: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
- Synonyms: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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