… the molten sunlight of warm skies …—T. B. Costain
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obsolete: made by melting and casting
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The flipping technique for his classic, beautifully molten-on-the-inside Spanish tortilla takes a good amount of practice to master.—General Manager, Los Angeles Times, 14 June 2026 Xcimer intends to address this by using a moving curtain of molten salt inside the reactor chamber instead of a static solid wall.—Aman Tripathi, Interesting Engineering, 11 June 2026 This collision was powerful enough to reduce the moon’s surface to molten rock similar to a lava flow.—Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 10 June 2026 Part of that use is simply imparting energy into a blanket of molten salt that surrounds the fusion chamber.—ArsTechnica, 9 June 2026 See All Example Sentences for molten
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Etymology
Middle English, from past participle of melten to melt