"Offering readers insight into issues related to metal-crucible interactions, this book suggests solutions to a major challenge in high-temperature materials processing. It offers a holistic presentation of the current knowledge of metal-crucible interactions and explains the underlying reasons for the occurrence and extent of incompatibility between metals and containment and the method and path to their possible solution. It describes analytical experimental techniques to quantify compatibility/incompatibility and all the metals and the important alloys as well as compounds and special compositions that are prone to degradation due to compatibility issues"--