Crucible
['kruːsɪb(ə)l] or ['krʊsəbl]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) a vessel made of material that does not melt easily; used for high temperature chemical reactions.
手打:奥斯伯特--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) A vessel or melting pot, composed of some very refractory substance, as clay, graphite, platinum, and used for melting and calcining substances which require a strong degree of heat, as metals, ores, etc.
(n.) A hollow place at the bottom of a furnace, to receive the melted metal.
(n.) A test of the most decisive kind; a severe trial; as, the crucible of affliction.
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解釋/意思:
n. an earthen pot for melting ores metals &c.
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例句/造句/用法:
- After boiling, an d then cooling rapidly, the contents of the crucible proved a black glass. 李貝. 西洋科學史.
- 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. 李貝. 西洋科學史.
- 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.大衛. 智者、化學家和偉大醫生的秘密.
- 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. 李貝. 西洋科學史.
- Carbon crucible kept brilliantly incandescent by current in vacuo, for obtaining reaction with refractory metals. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- 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·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- 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. 世紀發明.
- 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. 世紀發明.
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