Meanings (ES + gloss)
crisol
A cup-shaped piece of laboratory equipment used to contain chemical compounds when heating them to very high temperatures.
In one corner of the closet was a very small furnace, with a glowing fire in it, and on the fire a kind of duplicate crucible—two crucibles connected by a tube. One of these crucib…
crisol
A heat-resistant container in which metals are melted, usually at temperatures above 500°C, commonly made of graphite with clay as a binder.
prueba de fuego
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…
We should give our support to the liberation of the captive nations of the world and deliver our compatriots from their crucible of suffering. In other words, we should take up the…
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