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This complex is highly mobile in the molten sections of the mantle.—David Bressan, Forbes.com, 23 May 2025 For instance, a 2022 analysis suggested that in the first billion years, when the Moon was covered in molten rock, giant rocks formed as the magma cooled and solidified.—Jennifer Ouellette, ArsTechnica, 23 May 2025 Lean harder on the accelerator, Just a little further, just a little
Faster, through the hellgate to the highway,
With all its molten rubber and melting
Asphalt sinking sharp and gumming the lungs.—Rowan Ricardo Phillips, New Yorker, 19 May 2025 Imagine a slow-motion bubble of molten rock pressing upward beneath the surface, warping and cracking the crust above.—Victoria Corless, Space.com, 19 May 2025 See All Example Sentences for molten
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Etymology
Middle English, from past participle of melten to melt
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