crucible

Preposition: of

• experience: Let the learner find his or her own crucible of experience.
• war: The crucible of war also makes for intense relationships, with their attendant infatuations, jealousies and rejection.
• life: My actions, attitudes and behaviors -- formed in the desperate crucible of life with an alcoholic -- were wrecking my life.
• terrorism: The specter of civil war still hangs over the nation, and Iraq has become a crucible of militant terrorism.
• pain: From a crucible of pain Only ashes now remain; Where years of contravention Wills disbelief into suspension.
• revolution: What explanation is there for this revival of the eighteenth and first half of the nineteenth centuries as the crucible of agricultural revolution?

Converse of object

• become: The specter of civil war still hangs over the nation, and Iraq has become a crucible of militant terrorism.
• include: The chemistry equipment found in the pit included numerous crucibles, as well as flasks and possible acid bottles.
• use: In 1842, Parsons, now the third Earl, cast a 72 inch mirror, weighing over four tons, using three crucibles.
• reach: He also reached the Crucible for the second time.

Adjective modifier

• small: The smelting too would have been handled by small scale crucibles - probably fuelled by charcoal.
• triangular: Figure 4: Group of triangular crucibles from the Oberstockstall laboratory.
• cultural: None of these cultural crucibles exist today and I wasn't able to find anything that resembles them.
• hot: The red hot crucible was placed by Neil into a retaining ring in the middle of an iron bar approximately 4 ' long.

Modifies a noun

• fragment: A number of crucible fragments associated with copper working were also recovered from this area.
• steel: The Bessemer Process brought about the end of Crucible steel for the less critical uses.
• stage: He qualified for the Crucible stage the next year also but lost in the first round, Dennis Taylor getting his revenge.
• furnace: Crucible furnace A smelting furnace incorporating a ceramic bowl in which the molten product is caught or retained.
• debut: He put paid to the hopes of Steve Davis in the 2002 World championship, to make his Crucible debut.
• appearance: He then qualified for his third Crucible appearance, beating Marcus Campbell and Joe Swail to qualify.