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There are a few reasons:

Safety, so individual does not get burned;

a hot crucible could damage the scale;

hot crucible could alter the substance being weighed;

a hot crucible as the heat is released into surrounding air, it causes convection air currents when using an electronic scale than measures to multiple decimal places can give a miss reading and give the individual a larger error percentage in their experiment.

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