crucible

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a vessel made of material that does not melt easily

   The metal glowed red inside the crucible.

Common collocations

• crucible steel Noun + noun

From Latin crucibulum (“night-lamp, metallurgic melting-pot”), apparently a derivative of crux (“cross”), perhaps by analogy to thūribulum (“censer”) and suffix -bulum, or from crucio (“to torment”).

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