crucible

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim A cup-shaped piece of laboratory equipment used to contain chemical compounds when heating them to very high temperatures.
2. isim A heat-resistant container in which metals are melted, usually at temperatures above 500°C, commonly made of graphite with clay as a binder.
3. isim The bottom and hottest part of a blast furnace; the hearth.
4. isim A very difficult and trying experience, that acts as a refining or hardening process.

   “But, in considering an author and his works as one, a sufficient distinction is not drawn between the ideal and the real: the last is only given by being past through the crucible of the first.”