(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.
Experience
Definition:
(n.) Trial, as a test or experiment.
(n.) The effect upon the judgment or feelings produced by any event, whether witnessed or participated in; personal and direct impressions as contrasted with description or fancies; personal acquaintance; actual enjoyment or suffering.
(n.) An act of knowledge, one or more, by which single facts or general truths are ascertained; experimental or inductive knowledge; hence, implying skill, facility, or practical wisdom gained by personal knowledge, feeling or action; as, a king without experience of war.
Example Sentences:
(1) However, this deficit was observed only when the sample-place preceded but not when it followed the interpolated visits (second experiment).
(2) Experience of pain is modified by intern and extern influences, and it can appear very multiformly in the chronicity.
(3) It was shown in experiments on four dogs by the conditioned method that the period of recovery of conditioned activity after one hour ether anaesthesia tested 7 to 7.5 days.
(4) The hemodynamic efficiency of the drive was tested in a number of in vivo experiments.
(5) The data from this experience as well as others previously reported can yield prognostic indicators of survival in cases of accidental hypothermia.
(6) In this paper, we show representative experiments illustrating some characteristics of the procedure which may have wide application in clinical microbiology.
(7) The transport of potassium ions through membranes of red blood cells was examined in in bitro experiments using a CMF of 4500 oersted.
(8) The analysis is based on the personal experience of the authors with 117 cases and the review of 223 cases published in the literature.
(9) Handing Greater Manchester’s £6bn health and social care budget over to the city’s combined authority is the most exciting experiment in local government and the health service in decades – but the risks are huge.
(10) We report a series of experiments designed to determine if agents and conditions that have been reported to alter sodium reabsorption, Na-K-ATPase activity or cellular structure in the rat distal nephron might also regulate the density or affinity of binding of 3H-metolazone to the putative thiazide receptor in the distal nephron.
(11) In animal experiments pharmacological properties of the low molecular weight heparin derivative CY 216 were determined.
(12) Experiments are proposed by which to test these and related hypotheses.
(13) This frees the student to experience the excitement and challenge of learning and the joy of helping people.
(14) These experiments indicated that there were significant differences between the early classical C system of mice and those of human and guinea pig.
(15) A modification of Mason's vertical banded gastroplasty for morbid obesity is presented, along with experience from 62 treated patients.
(16) The experiment was conducted on 3 groups of calves.
(17) In addition, control experiments with naloxone, ethanol, or cigarette smoking alone were performed.
(18) The concentrations of the drugs used in in vivo experiments did not affect the WBC counts in the peripheral blood of healthy mice.
(19) In experiments performed to determine whether PtdIns(4,5)P2 hydrolysis induced by TRH may have been caused by the elevation of [Ca2+]i, the following results were obtained: the effect of TRH to decrease the level of PtdIns(4,5)P2 was not reproduced by the calcium ionophore A23187 or by membrane depolarization with 50 mM K+; the calcium antagonist TMB-8 did not inhibit the TRH-induced decrease in PtdIns(4,5)P2; and, most importantly, inhibition by EGTA of the elevation of [Ca2+]i did not inhibit the TRH-induced decrease in PtdIns(4,5)P2.
(20) In our experience DSA is a safe, specific means of following postoperative grafts and diagnosing their occlusion.