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Recent Examples on the Web Both have iron-rich cores, mantles filled with churning molten rock, and thin, rocky crusts that cover their surface. — Jennifer Leman, Popular Mechanics, "This Is Venus, Earth's Boiling Twin," 5 Jan. 2020 Quartz sand is refined into molten silicon with a purity of 99.999999999%. — The Economist, "A look inside the factory around which the modern world turns," 18 Dec. 2019 In some instances, tracking the activity of magmatic eruptions—where molten rock rises from deep within Earth’s mantle—can be more straightforward. — Jennifer Leman, Popular Mechanics, "Why the White Island Volcano Eruption Was So Dangerous," 11 Dec. 2019 That target contains some material, typically either molten salt or a fluid that transfers heat readily, in order to heat it. — John Timmer, Ars Technica, "Company claims breakthrough in concentrating the Sun’s rays," 19 Nov. 2019 Another, Terrestrial Energy, in Canada, is developing a design that uses molten salt to produce 195 megawatts per reactor, about one-fifth of conventional units. — Andrew Blum, Time, "The Tech Innovations We Need to Happen if We're Going to Survive Climate Change," 12 Sep. 2019 The central tower houses molten salts that can store the energy of that light for extended periods of time. — Shweta Narayan, Smithsonian, "How Engineers of New Energy Technology Are Taking Cues From Nature," 31 Aug. 2019 In its place, the NASA team came up with a class of organic compounds called ionic liquids, essentially molten salts, that would remain liquid in the frigid lunar night. — Daniel Clery, Science | AAAS, "Could humanity’s return to the moon spark a new age of lunar telescopes?," 18 July 2019 Some startups are developing low-temperature, low-pressure reactors that use molten salt rather than water to cool fuel rods. — Eric Niiler, WIRED, "Senators Try—Again—to Solve the Nuclear Waste Debacle," 28 June 2019

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“Molten.” The Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster Inc., https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/molten. Accessed 28 January 2020.

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