English-French translations for crucible

• creuset
  L'Europe a parfois engendré l'horreur, mais elle a aussi été le lieu, le creuset, où fut élaborée cette notion fondamentale: la dignité de chaque être humain. Europe has sometimes bred horror but it has also been the scene, the crucible, where this basic idea, the dignity of every human being, was forged.
  C'est l'Union européenne qui doit rester le creuset de l'aide publique au développement, car c'est le partenaire privilégié à même de tenir tête aux Américains et aux Asiatiques. The European Union must remain the crucible of public development aid, for it is a privileged partner able to stand up to the Americans and the Asians.
  Dans son discours inaugural, il a déclaré que l'Assemblée jouerait un rôle clé dans le développement de l'esprit européen, "dont", a-t-il ajouté, "cette Assemblée a été et restera le creuset". In his inaugural address, he said that the Assembly would play a key role in developing the European spirit, 'for which', he said, 'the Assembly was and remains the crucible'.
• épreuve du feu

Definition of crucible

• 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
• A very difficult and trying experience, that acts as a refining or hardening process

Related words

• self-crucible
• crucibleless
• crucible steel
• cold crucible