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Crucible vs Furnace - What's the difference?

crucible | furnace |

As nouns the difference between crucible and furnace

is that crucible is a cup-shaped piece of laboratory equipment used to contain chemical compounds when heating them to very high temperatures while furnace is a device for heating.

As a verb furnace is

to heat in a furnace.

crucible

English

(wikipedia crucible)

Noun

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

    • furnace

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A device for heating.
  • A device that heats materials being processed in a factory.
  • A device that provides heat for a building.
  • Any area that is excessively hot.
  • (figurative) A place or time of punishment, affiction, or great trial; severe experience or discipline.
  • * William Tyndale, (Tyndale Bible), :
    • For the Lorde toke you and broughte you out of the yernen fornace of Egipte, to be vnto him a people of enheritaunce, as it is come to passe this daye.

    Verb

    (furnac)
  • To heat in a furnace