How to pronounce“crucible”in English
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Definitions of “crucible”
A cup-shaped piece of laboratory equipment used to contain chemical compounds when heating them to very high temperatures.
“In one corner of the closet was a very small furnace, with a glowing fire in it, and on the fire a kind of duplicate crucible—two crucibles connected by a tube. One of these crucibles was nearly full of lead in a state of fusion, but not reaching up to the aperture of the tube, which was close to the brim.”
A heat-resistant container in which metals are melted, usually at temperatures above 500°C, commonly made of graphite with clay as a binder.