(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.
Example Sentences:
(1) As Gabrielle is at pains to point out, there was no unhappy childhood to avenge; no traumas to shove into the creative crucible.
(2) DNA damage induced in vivo by the cross-linking agent mitomycin C (MMC) was investigated with a new oscillating crucible viscometer.
(3) Within 5 minutes after taken out from an oven and allowed to stand in a room, a dried crucible and tissue become wet with moisture in the air and their water content reaches equilibrium and saturation.
(4) Few sporting examinations compare to the lonely and constant pressure of professional snooker, let alone World Championship final at the Crucible Theatre in Sheffield snooker.
(5) We also seem to be heading increasingly towards a directors’ theatre, where the ability to rework standard classics takes precedence over new writing: look at the fervid excitement created by current productions of The Crucible and A Streetcar Named Desire .
(6) Four test alloys were prepared using a high frequency centrifugal casting machine and a ceramic crucible for the development of titanium bonding alloys that can be cast in the ordinary atmosphere.
(7) The crucible, as usual in Republican races, is shaping up as South Carolina, conservative like Iowa, only nastier, an awkward race for Romney.
(8) The influence of different gas mixtures in the flame and different crucible temperatures on: 1.
(9) For the first series induction heating was employed for melting the alloy, for the second a resistance crucible, and for the third an oxy-acetylene torch.
(10) (Made during the German occupation, Day of Wrath can be read as a definitive account of 20th-century witch-hunts - which helps to explain why it almost certainly served as a major influence on Arthur Miller's The Crucible.)
(11) Briefly Evans allows himself to put the artistic director hat back in place and describes what he has planned for the Crucible's 40th anniversary celebrations next year: the Restoration comedy The Way of the World , a return by John Simm, who played Hamlet there in September last year; a production of Pinter's Betrayal ; and a season of Michael Frayn plays, including Democracy , Copenhagen and Benefactors .
(12) Casting is done by the transferral of molten stainless steel from the crucible to the mold by centrifugal force in an electro-induction casting machine.
(13) During the long interview process to take over the running of the Crucible from Sam West, who had departed just before the theatre closed for renovation in 2007, it was made clear that acting was a part of the gig, along with directing and overseeing the various theatres including the Crucible main stage, the studio and the Lyceum, which plays host to touring productions.
(14) John Tiffany , the Tony award-winning director of Once, proposed the re-reading to Sondheim and is workshopping the idea in New York with Daniel Evans, artistic director of Sheffield Crucible , playing Bobby.
(15) By heating at 105 degrees C in a constant temperature electric oven, a 35 ml crucible becomes completely dry in an hour and 2 grams of human tissue in 48 hours.
(16) The second choice, Arthur Miller’s The Crucible, was more successful but revealed little about the Royal Court’s policy.
(17) Heated, empty porcelain crucibles do not show released calcium.
(18) Historically, Oakland is a crucible of black empowerment and left-wing activism.
(19) At temperatures required for complete release of calcium from beef liver by dry ashing, porcelain crucibles release significant amounts of calcium into the ash, which leads to erroneously high calcium values in the samples.
(20) Always rumours.” Since Hungary blocked its borders on Tuesday , it is this tiny rail station at Tovarnik, a town located a kilometre inside Croatia , that has become the latest crucible of the European refugee crisis.
Equipment
Definition:
(n.) The act of equipping, or the state of being equipped, as for a voyage or expedition.
(n.) Whatever is used in equipping; necessaries for an expedition or voyage; the collective designation for the articles comprising an outfit; equipage; as, a railroad equipment (locomotives, cars, etc. ; for carrying on business); horse equipments; infantry equipments; naval equipments; laboratory equipments.
Example Sentences:
(1) In choosing between various scanning techniques the factors to be considered include availability, cost, the type of equipment, the expertise of the medical and technical staff, and the inherent capabilities of the system.
(2) Finally the advanced automation of the equipment allowed weekly the evaluation of catecholamines and the whole range of their known metabolites in 36 urine samples.
(3) The manufacturers, British Aerospace describe it as a "single-seat, radar equipped, lightweight, multi-role combat aircraft, providing comprehensive air defence and ground attack capability".
(4) This suggests that the latter group does not possess the genetic equipment (Ir genes) to recognize the antigenic determinants and to synthesize the corresponding antibodies.
(5) Their disadvantages - the expensive equipment and the time-consuming procedure respectively - limit their widespread use.
(6) The importance of proper disinfection of such equipment cannot be overemphasized.
(7) Of great influence on the results of measurements are preparation and registration (warm-up-time, amplification, closeness of pressure-system, unhurt catheters), factors relating to equipment and methods (air-bubbles in pressure-system, damping by filters, continuous infusion of the micro-catheter, level of zero-pressure), factors which occur during intravital measurement (pressure-drop along the arteria pulmonalis, influence of normal breathing, great intrapleural pressure changes, pressure damping in the catheter by thrombosis and external disturbances) and last not least positive and negative acceleration forces, which influence the diastolic and systolic pulmonary artery pressure.
(8) The indication of the DNA probe method would be considered in the four cases as follows, 1. necessity of the special equipment to isolate the pathogen, 2. necessity of the long period to isolate the pathogen, 3. existence of the cross reaction among the pathogen and relative organisms in the immunological procedure, 4. existence of the difficulty to identify the species of the pathogen by the ordinary procedure.
(9) Even though there are variations among equipment bearing the same model number it was considered worthwhile to make available relative cavitational and temperature data.
(10) The American Red Cross said the aid organisation had already run out of medical supplies, with spokesman Eric Porterfield explaining that the small amount of medical equipment and medical supplies available in Haiti had been distributed.
(11) The first part of this survey which dealt with equipment for the anterior segment was published in a previous issue of this journal.
(12) When allegations of systemic doping and cover-ups first emerged in the runup to the 2013 Russian world athletics championships, an IOC spokesman insisted: “Anti-doping measures in Russia have improved significantly over the last five years with an effective, efficient and new laboratory and equipment in Moscow.” London Olympics were sabotaged by Russia’s doping, report says Read more We now know that the head of that lauded Moscow lab, Grigory Rodchenko, admitted to intentionally destroying 1,417 samples in December last year shortly before Wada officials visited.
(13) It is anomalous that the world is equipped with global funds to finance action on infectious diseases and climate change, but not humanitarian crises.
(14) A simple technique is described for producing enhanced radiographs of excised breast specimens with clinical mammographic equipment.
(15) Drones and helicopter strikes are not equipped with political night-vision.
(16) In addition to the threat of industrial espionage to sustain this position, there is an inherent risk of Chinese equipment being used for intelligence purposes.
(17) A planned, induced labor with regional anesthesia and continuous invasive monitoring in a well-equipped medical center provides the safest setting for delivery.
(18) By sharing insights and best practice expertise through [the Electrical and Electronic Equipment Sustainability Action Plan] esap and other platforms, Wrap believes business models such as trade-in services will be a reality in the next three to five years.” The actions of the 51 signatories to esap include: implementing new business models such as take-back and resale; extending product durability; and gaining greater value from reuse and recycling.
(19) They were granted “extraordinary leave” and left with their military equipment to be captured or killed on the streets of the Chechen capital.
(20) At the same time optical and mechanical systems of the Soviet-made sigmoidoscope, model CBO-1, an apparatus equipped with fibrous optical elements for transmission of ligh and image, now in batch production, are described.