The Skull Crucible process was developed at the Lebedev Physical Institute in Moscow to manufacture cubic zirconia.
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Later, Soviet scientists under V. V. Osiko at the Lebedev Physical Institute in Moscow perfected the technique, which was then named skull crucible (an allusion either to the shape of the water-cooled container or to the form of crystals sometimes grown).