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Instead, these changes are announced millions of years before they’re actually achieved, by the activity of molten rock in Earth’s mantle.
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Sam Walters, Discover Magazine, 25 June 2025
As parts of the colliding plates and seafloor are pushed into Earth’s mantle, blobs of molten rock rise upwards and come into contact with water and gases, resulting in highly-explosive mix on the surface.
—David Bressan, Forbes.com, 20 June 2025
The movement in the Earth's molten outer core generates electric currents.
—New Atlas, 10 May 2025
Designs like flow batteries that store energy by the megawatt-hour and molten salt batteries that stash power for months could outperform the reigning lithium-ion battery.
—Umair Irfan, Vox, 21 Apr. 2025
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Sam Walters, Discover Magazine, 25 June 2025
As parts of the colliding plates and seafloor are pushed into Earth’s mantle, blobs of molten rock rise upwards and come into contact with water and gases, resulting in highly-explosive mix on the surface.
—David Bressan, Forbes.com, 20 June 2025
The movement in the Earth's molten outer core generates electric currents.
—New Atlas, 10 May 2025
Designs like flow batteries that store energy by the megawatt-hour and molten salt batteries that stash power for months could outperform the reigning lithium-ion battery.
—Umair Irfan, Vox, 21 Apr. 2025
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“Molten.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/molten. Accessed 5 Jul. 2025.
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molten
adjective
mol·ten
ˈmōlt-ᵊn 
: melted especially by very great heat
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