Industrial Crucible
crossroads:heating_crucible
The <item>Industrial Crucible/$ is a crafting machine that converts items into liquids using heat. It only works above 1000°C.
It drains heat constantly while above 1000°C, but will work faster and drain heat more quickly at higher temperatures. The efficiency stays the same.
<item><link:heat/cable>Heat cables/$ and pipes can connect to any side other than the top. Items can be inserted into any side.

<em>There is a handy and powerful heat generation method using this machine!/$ When melting obsidian into lava, less heat is consumed than is released when cooling it back into obsidian using a <item><link:heat/fcc>Fluid Cooling Chamber/$.

This machine is typically used for, among other things, producing lava and melting metal items into a liquid. It can also double ores by melting them into 2 ingots worth of molten metal, which can be cooled into ingots in a <item><link:heat/fcc>Fluid Cooling Chamber/$.