melting_pot has definitions from the fields of chemistry,geography
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[ noun ] (geography) an environment in which many ideas and races are socially assimilated

Used in print

(Tristram P. Coffin, "Folklore in the American Twentieth...)

Nor have we remembered that in the melting_pot of America the hundreds of isolated and semi isolated ethnic , regional and occupational groups did not fuse into a homogeneous national unit until long after education and industrialization had caused them to cast oral tradition aside as a means of carrying culturally significant material .

(Robert A. Futterman, The Future of Our Cities....)

But they deny the values of the city - the crowded , competitive , tolerant city , the `` melting_pot '' which gave_off so many of the most admirable American qualities .

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environment

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[ noun ] (chemistry) a vessel made of material that does not melt easily; used for high temperature chemical reactions

Synonyms

crucible

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vessel

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