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• The crucible was subjected to several heatings.From the entry heating
• The crucible was subjected to several reheatings.From the entry reheating
• The crucible could withstand the high temperatures necessary to melt metals in a container.1949, History Committee of District No. 1 of the Steel Founders' Society of America, edited by AD Graeff AD, A History of Steel Casting…. From the entry cast steel
• The results show that it is practicable to titanize by neutral salt bath in the electrode salt bath furnace without crucible.1996, Zhang Laiqi, Li Musen, Sun Xitai, “Study on Titanizing in Neutral Salt Bath”, in Heat Treatment of Metals, volume 8. From the entry titanize
• A long table was covered with scrolls, skulls, crucibles, crystals, star-charts, geomantic figures, and other appurtenances of a magician's calling.1903, Richard Garnett, The Twilight of the Gods, and Other Tales. From the entry geomantic
• Hereditary conscience, passing through this fierce crucible, lay levigable before Goethe, to be swept away into dust-hole or moulded into the image of reason.2020, Moncure D. Conway, The Mythology of the Devil. From the entry levigable
• The molten glass exudes into the space outside the outer crucible, and a filament is pulled from the exudant to form a cored glass fiber.2013, Vladimir G. Plekhanov, Applications of the Isotopic Effect in Solids, page 258. From the entry exude
• The bush is the crucible of Australian national identity because it is here that mateship, that linchpin of Australian national identity, was forged.2011, Rod Giblett, People and Places of Nature and Culture, page 127. From the entry mateship
• Traces of earlier metal-working at Yanshi are hinted at in remains of crucibles and metal fragments, but much more information is still required.1987, Jessica Rawson, “Introduction”, in Chinese Bronzes: Art and Ritual, British Museum Publications, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 9. From the entry Yanshi
• These two metals were then melted in magnesia crucibles and cooled slowly, in order to find how much phosphide would separate during solidification.1901, J. E. Stead, “Iron and Phosphorus”, in Albert Sauveur, editor, The Metallographist, volume IV, Boston, Mass.: Boston Testing…. From the entry phosphide
• The nuragic period occupation level in the chief's dwelling produced pig, cow, and sheep bones along with pottery, fragments of bronze objects, a crucible and some slag.2007, Stephen L. Dyson; Robert J. Rowland, Jr., Archaeology and History in Sardinia from the Stone Age to the Middle Ages: Shepherds…. From the entry Nuragic
• The temperatures at which decalescence occurs vary with the amount of carbon in the steel, and are also higher for high-speed steel than for ordinary crucible steel.1919, Machinery's Handbook for Machine Shop and Drafting-room. From the entry decalescence

Meaning of crucible

1. noun A cup-shaped piece of laboratory equipment used to contain chemical compounds when heating them to very high temperatures.
2. noun A heat-resistant container in which metals are melted, usually at temperatures above 500°C, commonly made of graphite with clay as a binder.
3. noun The bottom and hottest part of a blast furnace; the hearth.

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How do you use crucible in a sentence?

Crucible is used as a noun. For example: “The crucible was subjected to several heatings.”

What is a short sentence with crucible?

“The crucible was subjected to several heatings.”

What does crucible mean?

Crucible means a cup-shaped piece of laboratory equipment used to contain chemical compounds when heating them to very high temperatures.