"Cupelling" is a word in ENGLISH
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He did touch people's lives, the lives of strangers, in an entirely unanticipated way. It was they who really mourned him - or what they thought was him - with a grief that was no less sharp for not being intimate with its object.
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A man is flying in a hot air balloon and realizes he is lost. He reduces his altitude and spots a man down below. He lowers the balloon further and shouts: "Excuse me, can you tell me where I am?"The man below says: "Yes, you're in a hot air balloon, hovering 30 feet above this field.""You must work in Technical Support," says the balloonist."I do," replies the man. "How did you know?""Well" says the balloonist, "everything you have told me is technically correct, but completely useless."The man below says: "You must be in management.""I am," replies the balloonist, "but how did you know?""Well", says the man, "you don't know where you are, or where you're going, but you expect me to be able to help. You're still in the same position you were before we met, but now it's my fault."
A globule of metal remaining on an assay cupel or in a crucible, after fusion.
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Read the complete definitionCupel dust.
Read the complete definitionA shallow porous cup, used in refining precious metals, commonly made of bone ashes (phosphate of lime).
Read the complete definitionTo refine by means of a cupel.
Read the complete definitionThe act or process of refining gold or silver, etc., in a cupel.
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Read the complete definitionAn earthenware compartment or oven, often shaped like a half cylinder, used in furnaces to protect objects heated from the …
Read the complete definitionTo refine, as gold or silver, in a test, or cupel; to subject to cupellation.
Read the complete definitionExamination or trial by the cupel; hence, any critical examination or decisive trial; as, to put a man's assertions to …
Read the complete definitionA cupel or cupelling hearth in which precious metals are melted for trial and refinement.
Read the complete definitionThe operation of refining gold or silver in a test, or cupel; cupellation.
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