crucible
IPA: krˈusʌbʌɫ
noun
- (chemistry) A cup-shaped piece of laboratory equipment used to contain chemical compounds when heating them to very high temperatures.
- A heat-resistant container in which metals are melted, usually at temperatures above 500°C, commonly made of graphite with clay as a binder.
- The bottom and hottest part of a blast furnace; the hearth.
- (figuratively) A very difficult and trying experience, that acts as a refining or hardening process.
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Examples of "crucible" in Sentences
- The crucibles stood for the iron and steel industry.
- Nucleation happens in the cooler part of the crucible.
- The gaseous sulphide condenses on the crucible fabric.
- Perhaps the author should read The Crucible some time.
- One of the earliest uses of platinum was to make crucibles.
- Attached to the rim of the crucible is a shock resistant ring.
- He was also the first qualifier to win the title at the Crucible.
- The 1930s were therefore the crucible of modern Belizean politics.
- She helped to oversee the creation of the Crucible Theatre in Sheffield.
- 'The Crucible' showed the events that happened in the 1950s with communism.
- Bollingen, which Jung considered his alchemical crucible, is dismissed by Giegerich as
- And someone else's knowledge, I found, was never my own, for the crucible is the experience.
- The town of Asuka, often described as the crucible of Japanese civilization, was a cosmopolitan melting pot in the seventh century.
- The scope of the crucible is always brought home to me by one single moment: The sinking of the Wilhelm Gustloff on January 30, 1945.
- In this crucible is formed the young Naipaul, who writes home from Oxford to Seepersad Naipaul, his beloved and writerly father and mentor, to say: I want to come top of my group.
- Indeed, cross-examination is often referred to as the crucible of the truth: Combine a defense attorney's direct examination with a forceful cross-examination, and therein a juror discovers the truth.
- There was the withdrawal of a tiny crucible from the white heat of the furnace, and the sliding back of the door, and then the crucible was a dazzling light fleck that danced through the blackness toward one of the workbenches.