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molten

[mohl-tn]

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verb

a past participle of melt.

adjective

liquefied by heat; in a state of fusion; melted: molten lead.

produced by melting and casting: a molten image.

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Origin:
1250–1300; Middle English; old past participle of melt¹

Related forms

mol·ten·ly, adverb

su·per·mol·ten, adjective

un·mol·ten, adjective

Example Sentences

Molten chocolate babycakes are perhaps even more impressive as a do-ahead dessert, as they are served hot.

Metals and other inorganic materials that do not turn into gas fall to the bottom of the chamber as molten slag.

During the day, sunlight from a mirror field is used to heat molten salt.

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Molten chocolate babycakes are perhaps even more impressive as a do-ahead dessert, as they are served hot.

Metals and other inorganic materials that do not turn into gas fall to the bottom of the chamber as molten slag.

During the day, sunlight from a mirror field is used to heat molten salt.

Molten salt is the real game changer for solar thermal because it allows for nighttime production.

They then poured molten lead over the joints to cushion them from seismic shocks and protect the clamps from corrosion.

The waters off the coast turn molten silver, then disappear into darkness.

Instead of a river of sediment, the delta is fed molten rock through mostly underground lava tubes.

SolarReserve isn't the only developer planning to tap molten salt to store solar energy.

In a slick of molten gold, dawn breaks and the trees awaken.

The pair created this image by injecting molten solder into a tiny silicone channel.

Until recently, no one understood much about how the molten lava rises up into the ridges.

But then the molten liquid from the ceiling dripped on more of my body.

Finally, a warm river of molten dark chocolate flows into molds to cool into shiny slabs for eating or cooking.

The molten rock oozes into the basin and fills it up.

The governor, according to legend, had them plunged into boiling oil and forced them to drink molten lead.

Both power-tower and parabolic-trough systems can store thermal energy in the form of hot, molten salt.

They explode with boom, blast ash high into the air, and ooze molten hot lava.

At that time he knew molten salt reactors where viable.

When lava flows in channels, the exterior can cool and solidify while the interior is still hot and molten.

The explosion threw chunks of molten and solid lava into the air to gather into the cones.

Concentrated solar thermal plant with molten salt storage does the job today.

Flowing molten rock burned hundreds of buildings in the town.

Melt down a chocolate bunny and whaddaya know, you've got molten chocolate-perfect for fondue.

Sure, it might save their thighs from a thorough charring, but it will send their laptop's temperature into the molten lava range.

Direct contact of molten lava with water or ice also leads to explosions which eject fine dust.

Volcanoes sizzle as magma, or molten rock, oozes into the gap.

Some solar companies, using fields of mirrors and molten salt, have actually come up with a way to generate power at night.

They also show builders used molten metal to cast its hands and feet.

As subsequent layers are added the molten thermoplastic fuses to the layers below.

Steam, ash, and molten rock may gush out through the volcano.

So, he uses a blow torch to heat a spot on the bottle until it is red hot and molten.

It runs at normal atmospheric pressure, and uses molten salts instead of water.

Molten rock also cooled and hardened underground later to be exposed by erosion.

Pour some molten steel in there, let it cool, and you have an actual tiny key.

The carbon in the graphite electrodes reacts with the oxygen in the molten alumina to yield carbon dioxide.

And while the acetylene torch can leave behind molten metal to fuse back together, the oxy-gas torch makes a clean cut.

Scientists have long known that during an eruption, gases fizz out of magma as the molten rock rises to the surface.

Indeed, there is so much molten lava and sulphurous ash around that some of the world's biggest companies have been covered in.

Molten salts can store the sun's heat during the day and provide power at night.

But the moon is too small and cool to possess such a molten interior and therefore lacks a global magnetic field.

Details now emerging show the route that much of the molten fuel followed.

Lava fountains often shoot the molten magma high in the air before it flows down the mountain's slopes.

Long considered fixed founts of molten material from deep within the planet, hot spots now join the list of moving parts.

Embers and scraps of molten bronze skitter onto the concrete floor of an open-air shed housing the furnace.

Much more entertainingly, they show the great modern spectacle of molten chocolate being formed into bars, bonbons and candies.

Flux also lowers surface tension so that the molten solder will flow more easily into the heated joint.

Bush-hatred eventually spread from a molten core of leftists to set the cultural tone of the country.

If they are not using molten salt then none of their great.

Molten underground magma interacted with ground water, and the volcano expelled steam, ash and rocks.

It did not say whether the fuel was molten or solid.

From crucibles of molten silicon, ribbons of the stuff are continuously pulled out.

As the molten rock reaches the crust, it quickly cools and hardens.

Simulations show that the molten core of a lone-wolf.

Find a molten chocolate fountain, cocoa-dusted ganache and more.

Every few minutes huge molten blobs seem to soar in slow motion.

The best available estimates for building even one molten salt reactor run much higher than that.

Monday's showers contained only sprinkles of molten rock from the volcano.

The volcano, which has been active for nearly a century, has a lake of molten lava at.

Ground water seeps into the earth until it reaches rock heated by magma, or molten volcanic rock.

Lava tubes form when molten lava seeps out beneath a solidifying flow from an active volcano, leaving long caves in its wake.

Because the molten iron in the core is a good electrical.

Vesta may have once had a molten core that oozed lava before going cold after a few million years.

There are pastries to dip in molten chocolate for dessert.

The land's rise and fall over time, they say, can be attributed to variation in what may be a continuous flow of molten basalt.

Without any molten salt involved it seems there would have to be a fossil fuel source for the night.

They may not have solid, rocky surfaces for liquid water to pool on, or a molten mantle to drive plate tectonics.

They are imposing, wild works, made simply by pouring molten iron into dug-out sand casts.

In a subduction zone, some of the molten material-the former seafloor-can rise through volcanoes located near the trench.

The energy is stored in molten salt in large underground containers.

Next, he'd pour a few hundred thousand tons of molten iron into the crack, along with a robotic probe.

Yes the balls has molten iron which doesn't interact with any gravity waves.

It uses molten salt as both a coolant an a carrier for thorium and uranium fluorides.

Sometimes it's a about molten sodium and chlorine gas.

Others form where a lava tube's outer surface cools and hardens and the inside of the molten rock drains away.

All of them involve dumping carbon monoxide and pure oxygen into molten metal ores to draw out impurities.

You'll float through the plumes of superheated water that erupt from hydrothermal vents atop molten rock that cooks far below.

The planet's outer core of molten iron spins constantly, acting as a giant dynamo, or electromagnet.

Additional molten rock could cause it to expand further.

When hot molten lava flows downhill, it is slowly capped by.

The color indicates the temperature when molten sulphur was forced out.

When this happened, iron-loving metals should have followed molten iron down from the planet's mantle and into the core.

Miles below this island, molten magma boils in a holding chamber.

As magma cools and solidifies, hydrogen and chlorine present in the molten rock tend to bond to form hydrogen chloride gas.

The ice cap has been putting pressure on molten magma below, helping to propel the plume of vapor and volcanic ash skyward.

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Dictionary.com Unabridged

verb (used without object)

to become liquefied by warmth or heat, as ice, snow, butter, or metal.

to become liquid; dissolve: Let the cough drop melt in your mouth.

to pass, dwindle, or fade gradually (often followed by away): His fortune slowly melted away.

to pass, change, or blend gradually (often followed by into): Night melted into day.

to become softened in feeling by pity, sympathy, love, or the like: The tyrant's heart would not melt.

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Obsolete. to be subdued or overwhelmed by sorrow, dismay, etc.

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verb (used with object)

to reduce to a liquid state by warmth or heat; fuse: Fire melts ice.

to cause to pass away or fade.

to cause to pass, change, or blend gradually.

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to soften in feeling, as a person or the heart.

noun

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the act or process of melting; state of being melted.

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something that is melted.

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a quantity melted at one time.

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a sandwich or other dish topped with melted cheese: a tuna melt.

Origin:
before 900; Middle English melten, Old English meltan (intransitive), m(i)elten (transitive) to melt, digest; cognate with Old Norse melta to digest, Greek méldein to melt

Related forms

melt·a·ble, adjective

melt·a·bil·i·ty, noun

melt·ing·ly, adverb

melt·ing·ness, noun

non·melt·a·ble, adjective

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non·melt·ing, adjective

un·melt·a·ble, adjective

un·melt·ed, adjective

un·melt·ing, adjective

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Can be confused: evanescence, evaporation, liquefaction, melting, thawing, transpiration, vaporization.

Synonyms
1. Melt, dissolve, fuse, thaw imply reducing a solid substance to a liquid state. To melt is to bring a solid to a liquid condition by the agency of heat: to melt butter. Dissolve, though sometimes used interchangeably with melt, applies to a different process, depending upon the fact that certain solids, placed in certain liquids, distribute their particles throughout the liquids: A greater number of solids can be dissolved in water and in alcohol than in any other liquids. To fuse is to subject a solid (usually a metal) to a very high temperature; it applies especially to melting or blending metals together: Bell metal is made by fusing copper and tin. To thaw is to restore a frozen substance to its normal (liquid, semiliquid, or more soft and pliable) state by raising its temperature above the freezing point: Sunshine will thaw ice in a lake. 4. dwindle. 10. gentle, mollify, relax.

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World English Dictionary

molten (ˈməʊltən)

—*adj*
1.	liquefied; melted: molten lead
2.	made by having been melted: molten casts

—vb
3.	the past participle of melt

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Word Origin & History

melt

O.E. meltan "become liquid" (class III strong verb; past tense mealt, pp. molten), from P.Gmc. *meltanan; fused with O.E. gemæltan (Anglian), gemyltan (W.Saxon) "make liquid," from P.Gmc. *gamaltijanan (cf. O.N. melta "to digest"), both from PIE *meld- "softness" (cf. Gk. meldein "to melt," L.

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mollis "soft, mild"). Related: Melted; melting. Melting pot is from 1540s; figurative use from 1855; popularized with reference to America by play "The Melting Pot" by Israel Zangwill (1908).

molten

late 13c., archaic pp. of O.E. meltian, a class III strong verb (see melt).

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Science Dictionary

melt (mělt) Pronunciation Key
To change from a solid to a liquid state by heating or being heated with sufficient energy at the melting point. See also heat of fusion.

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