hot metal

noun

: composition in which the type is cast from molten metal

Examples of hot metal in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web Inside your air fryer, a large fan sits above a hot metal coil, blowing air upwards and around the machine. —

Maxwell Zeff / Gizmodo, Quartz, 1 Apr. 2024 Two prevailing theories currently seek to explain Io’s volcanic activity: The moon contains either a global ocean of liquid magma or a hot metal core, scientists say. —

Christian Thorsberg, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 Feb. 2024 Read the full review » Dhamaka Indian | Lower East Side At Dhamaka, an Indian restaurant in Essex Market, on the Lower East Side, my dining companions and I took turns dragging our spoons through a hot metal pot of gurda kapoora, searching for offal. —

Hannah Goldfield, The New Yorker, 4 Nov. 2023 Such a hammer developed to cut hot metal is called, appropriately, a hot cut. —

Roy Berendsohn, Popular Mechanics, 7 June 2023 See all Example Sentences for hot metal

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