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Vessel for melting metals
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crucible
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Crucible is a collaborative code review application by Australian software company Atlassian . Like other Atlassian products, Crucible is a Web -based application primarily aimed at the enterprise , and certain features that enable peer review of a codebase ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
early 15c., from Medieval Latin crucibulum "melting pot for metals," originally "night lamp." First element might be Middle High German kruse "earthen pot." Or perhaps it is from Latin crux on some fancied resemblance to a cross. Used of any severe test ...
Usage examples of crucible.
All Archaeon cultures, along with the containers holding them, should be incinerated in onboard crucible and the ashes jettisoned.
Go back to your crucifix or your crucible and change your bleeping incantation.
The backyard fared little better, home to a kiln, a crucible furnace, an annealing oven, and three or four incomplete sets of bocce balls that made interesting dents in the garden of weeds.
Provided there were bellows sufficiently strong to provide a current of air, a single-tier furnace was enough, as compared with the elaborate two-tier, kiln-type furnace which was needed for copper ore to be reduced in crucibles.
The mixture of ore and culm is either transferred to a black-lead crucible before the latter is put into the furnace, or, as some prefer, it is carefully swept into a crucible which has been imbedded in the fire.
If a mixture of many substances be fused and allowed to solidify in a crucible, there will be found some or all of the following.
The slag when fused should be liquid and homogeneous, and not too corrosive on the crucible.
It is then mixed with fluxes as described, and fused in the same crucible.
Detach the slag, replace in the crucible, and, when fused, add a mixture of 20 grams of litharge and 1 gram of charcoal.
De Geer had toured the crucible steel plant in April of 1632, Josh Modi had explained that steel was simply a carbon alloy of iron, as was cast iron.
In fact, the Catalan method, properly so called, requires the construction of kilns and crucibles, in which the ore and the coal, placed in alternate layers, are transformed and reduced, But Cyrus Harding intended to economize these constructions, and wished simply to form, with the ore and the coal, a cubic mass, to the center of which he would direct the wind from his bellows.
In the path of the projector was a large lux metal crucible surrounded by a ring of relux, and a series of points of relux aimed into the crucible.
The crucible was entirely enclosed in a large lux metal case which was lined, on the side away from the projector, with roughened relux.
The weighed portion of ore should be placed in a clean crucible and be heated to incipient redness: with pyrites the first effect is to drive off about half the sulphur as vapour which burns as flame over the ore.
Cadmium is the metal generally recommended, and the alloy is made by melting together a weighed portion of the gold with five or six times its weight of cadmium in a Berlin crucible and under a thin layer of potassium cyanide.