Crucibles is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for CRUCIBLES in dictionary:

NOUN:
• CRUCIBLE, a heat-resistant vessel
• a ceramic or metal container in which metals or other substances may be melted or subjected to very high temperatures
• a situation of severe trial, or in which different elements interact, leading to the creation of something new

Words related to CRUCIBLES

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How to use CRUCIBLES in a sentence

• The niche in question was filled with strange-looking vessels, some like bowls, and others not unlike crucibles.
• Many have signalized themselves by melting their estates in crucibles.
• The furnace had but three crucibles, each of which contained one of the mixtures by means of which he and Beroviero were trying to produce the famous red glass.
• It was the same pioneer blood of Isaac Travers in both men, but it had been retorted in widely different crucibles.
• And the twenty bellows blew into the crucibles and made bright and hot fires.
• Around the room were retorts, tubes, cylinders, crucibles, and other apparatus of chemical research.
• Small crucibles of native manufacture for reducing silver and copper in the manufacture of ornaments.
• It is even possible that cosmic crucibles, unrivalled by terrestrial ones, may help materially to reveal the secret of the formation of complex elements from simpler ones.
• At least we may see what a vast variety of physical conditions these cosmic crucibles afford.
• A hundred parts of sand, thirty-five of chalk, forty of sulphate of soda, mixed with two or three parts of powdered coal, composed the substance, which was placed in crucibles.
• Porous crucibles of a material known as alundum may also be employed to advantage in special cases.
• When platinum crucibles are used with compounds of arsenic or phosphorus, special precautions are necessary to prevent damage.
• Silica crucibles are less likely to crack on heating than porcelain crucibles on account of their smaller coefficient of expansion.
• Ignition of substances not requiring too high a temperature may be made in porcelain or silica crucibles.
• Iron, nickel or silver crucibles are used in special cases.
• In general, platinum crucibles should be used whenever such use is practicable, and this is the custom in private, research or commercial laboratories.
• Hot objects, such as ignited crucibles, should be allowed to cool in the air until, when held near the skin, but little heat is noticeable.
• Platinum crucibles stained in use may often be cleaned by the fusion in them of potassium or sodium acid sulphate, or by heating with ammonium chloride.
• The crucibles were in the furnace now, and a hot flame going.
• Two or three times Hazelton burned his fingers, testing to see whether the crucibles were cool enough to handle.
• The infinite laboratories of nature welcome to their crucibles all the strange and awful elements which we fail to comprehend and against which we wage a futile warfare.
• On the contrary, dirty platinum crucibles may be advantageously cleaned by melting in them a little of the above mentioned mixture.

Similar words containing CRUCIBLE without suffix s

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