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MOLTEN
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Reduced to liquid form by heating
Example:
a mass of molten rock
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Similar:
liquid; liquified; melted (changed from a solid to a liquid state)
Context examples:
The processing was performed using a method called molten salt electrolysis.
(Scientists Find Way to Extract Oxygen from Moon Dirt, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
It was like molten lead being forced into his stomach, and it was forced by his will alone.
(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)
Issue associated with a solid device or device components being transformed into a molten or liquid state.
(Molten Medical Device Material, Food and Drug Administration)
The buoyancy of the material, some of it molten, causes the crust to bulge upward.
(Hot News from the Antarctic Underground, NASA)
New observations suggests that the largest of these lakes, Loki Patera, produces enormous waves that repeatedly flow around the molten surface.
(Massive Lava Waves Detected on Solar System’s Most Volcanically Active Object, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
The new molten air batteries, by contrast, offer the best of both worlds: a combination of high storage capacity and reversibility.
(New, high-energy rechargeable batteries, NSF)
Predictably enough, that intense heat caused the rocks to liquefy into molten lava, but once the lava cooled, analysis revealed that the chemical absences we find on Earth aren't an anomaly.
(Fiery Collisions That Gave Birth to Earth Could Have Evaporated 40% of Our World, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
Mercury’s interior is still active, due to the molten core that powers the planet’s weak magnetic field, relative to Earth’s.
(A Closer Look at Mercury’s Spin and Gravity Reveals the Planet’s Inner Solid Core, NASA)
The newly discovered reservoir carries hot and partly molten rock upward from the top of Yellowstone's hotspot plume—about 40 miles below the surface.
(Yellowstone magma discovery, NSF)
In the Licht group's latest study, the molten air battery operating temperature has been lowered to 600 degrees Celsius or less.
(New, high-energy rechargeable batteries, NSF)
