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Among other things, the author of “Silver, Sword & Stone: Three Crucibles in the Latin American Story” is reading a novel based on a juicy scandal in her own family.

From New York Times • Aug. 15, 2019

Crucibles and pharmaceutical jars littered the floor, along with bits of brick from a special furnace.

From Science Magazine • Jun. 6, 2018

They also brought into the house Mr. Tompkins Explores the Atom; One, Two, Three, Infinity; Mathematics for the Million; You and Heredity; Microbe Hunters; and Crucibles but didn’t force-feed them to us.

From Slate • Jun. 8, 2012

O'Sullivan has been known virtually to throw in the towel in despair at his own shortcomings but there are only a finite number of Crucibles in a career.

From The Guardian • Apr. 27, 2010

He cast those ten Pieces of Gold into one of my Crucibles, and I threw my Powder of Multiplication into the other.

From The Travels and Adventures of James Massey by Patot, Simon Tyssot de