Crucibles

Crucibles of hazard: mega-cities and disasters in transition.

Global Environment Outlook (GEO-4)~ Chapter 7 2008

Crucibles of nickel seem especially well adapted for the fusion of zircon in caustic alkalies.

Scientific American Supplement, No. 441, June 14, 1884. Various

Then I again asked him: What the Menstruum was, and whether the Operations were made in Glasses, or in Crucibles.

The Golden Calf, Which the World Adores, and Desires John Frederick Helvetius

Crucibles require coarsely crystalline graphite, but pencils, lubricants, and foundry facings may use amorphous and finely crystalline material.

The Economic Aspect of Geology 1915

Crucibles and alembics stood in the ashes before the stove, and on a sideboard placed under the window were scattered a set of silver scales, a chemist's mask, and a number of similar objects.

The Long Night Stanley John Weyman 1891

Crucibles and dishes in which weighings are made should be marked with numbers or letters; and their weights recorded, together with the date of weighing, in a small ledger, which is kept in the drawer of the balance.

A Text-book of Assaying: For the Use of Those Connected with Mines. Cornelius Beringer 1886

Crucibles and chemicals are ranged round a long room with an iron roof.

To The Gold Coast for Gold, Vol. II A Personal Narrative Richard Francis Burton 1855

Crucibles of gold and silver would melt at high temperatures.

Familiar Letters on Chemistry Justus Freiherr von Liebig 1838

For first I might alledge that I have observ'd little Grains of Silver to lie hid in the small Cavities (perhaps glas'd over by a vitrifying heat) in Crucibles, wherein Silver has been long kept in Fusion, whence some Goldsmiths of my Acquaintance make a Benefit by grinding such Crucibles to powder, to recover out of them the latent particles of Silver.

The Sceptical Chymist or Chymico-Physical Doubts & Paradoxes, Touching the Spagyrist's Principles Commonly call'd Hypostatical; As they are wont to be Propos'd and Defended by the Generality of Alchymists. Whereunto is præmis'd Part of another Discourse relating to the same Subject. Robert Boyle 1659

O'Sullivan has been known virtually to throw in the towel in despair at his own shortcomings but there are only a finite number of Crucibles in a career.

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