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That day ended on a pontoon boat, in front of cliffs turned molten by the setting sun, hippos yawning and huffing all around while a small group of us drank gin and tonics and learned the names of the birds feeding on the shore.
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The rocks falling into the lava lake triggered a small explosion that bombarded the rim of Halemaumau Crater with fragments of molten lava.
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Molten gold is poured into an ingot mold at the Perth Mint in Australia.
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My mother was a blacksmith’s forge with warm, molten arms.
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Pools of molten aluminum trickled down driveways from cars that had been left next to homes.
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Residents were wary that Pelée was primed, but believed that any danger would come from molten lava, which would be stopped by the hills and valleys between Saint-Pierre and the volcano.
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In the same week that 32 people were murdered at Virginia Tech, 32 Chinese workers at a steel plant in the north were scalded to death when a ladleful of molten steel was accidentally dumped on them.
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Only six years ago, Hardaway came out of Memphis State and into the NBA as smooth as molten gold.
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Origin and Etymology of molten
Middle English, from past participle of melten to melt
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: melted especially by very great heat molten metal
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