Crucible

(noun.) a vessel made of material that does not melt easily; used for high temperature chemical reactions.

手打:奥斯伯特

• After boiling, an d then cooling rapidly, the contents of the crucible proved a black glass. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
• He later enclosed some fragments of whinstone in a black-lead crucible and subjected it to intense heat in the reverberating furnace of an iron foundry. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
• The crucible is now covered and the fusion kept up for about thirty-five minutes, when the dross is skimmed off, and the alloy found ready for use. 威廉K.戴维. 智者、化学家和伟大医生的秘密.
• Again he heated the crucible in the fur nace, and removed quickly to an open fire, which was maintained some hours and then perm itted to die out. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
• Carbon crucible kept brilliantly incandescent by current in vacuo, for obtaining reaction with refractory metals. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• All of them burned with desire to be near to the crucible in which the political and social systems of the world were to be melted and recast. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Between that time and 1770 he practised melting small pieces of blistered steel (iron bars which had been carbonised by smelting in charcoal) in closed clay crucibles. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• Furnaces to hold the crucibles, and made of iron cylinders lined with fire brick, whereby the crucibles were subjected to greater heat, were also known. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.

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