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Squares of cheesy elbow macaroni are dropped into a hot skillet, creating a crispy and intensely cheesy exterior around an interior oozing sharp, molten cheese.
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A few days ago, shortly before ground-breaking fissures began to appear within the Leilani Estates subdivision of homes on the east rift zone of Kilauea, a restless lake of molten lava partly filled the Halema’uma’u pit crater.
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The video focuses on the Big Island's coastline, where the encroaching lava spilling from Fissure 8 has turned the beach into a pile of molten rock and waste.
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One of Central America's most active volcanoes erupted in fiery explosions of ash and molten rock Sunday, killing people and injuring many others while a towering cloud of smoke blanketed nearby villages in heavy ash.
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Kilauea produces lava, or sticky, molten rock, that typically creeps along at maybe hundreds of meters per hour -- not nearly as fast as devastating pyroclastic flow.
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One of Central America's most active volcanos erupted in fiery explosions of ash and molten rock Sunday, killing at least seven people and injuring 20 while a towering cloud of smoke blanketed nearby villages in heavy ash.
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Most have been confirmed to have partly molten rock underneath them.
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Volcanologists say a river of molten rock upwards of 20 feet tall tore through the Kapoho Beach Lots and Vacationland.
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Origin and Etymology of molten
Middle English, from past participle of melten to melt
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First Known Use: 14th century
in the meaning defined at sense 1
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Definition of molten for Students
: melted especially by very great heat
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