0 a container in which metals or other substances can be heated to very high temperatures
2 a place or situation in which different cultures or styles can mix together to produce something new and exciting
3 a container for melting metals
Overall, 79.4 g of metal production debris were associated with the cache, not including the metal inside the crucibles or the plastic cylinder.
Before the war everybody knew the typical bottle kilns which were crucibles not only for beautiful pottery but also of much human misery.
Most schools, such as those in my constituency, are wonderful crucibles of racial harmony, where the children play, learn and pray together.
One of the earliest uses of platinum was to make crucibles.
After two or three hours' smelting the cooled crucibles are broken up, when the regulus appears in the shape and size of half an egg.
Thorium dioxide is a material for heat-resistant ceramics, e.g., for high-temperature laboratory crucibles.
As with his controversial painting series on homelessness, his work centered on the indefatigable human spirit rather than on political and economic crucibles.
Morio uses stars and crucibles in conjunction with his canoes which are associated with sailors and navigation.
