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Hours after the fire was put out, the smell of molten metal was present throughout the ramp between the second and third floors of the garage.—Arkansas Online, 15 Aug. 2025 The first molten metal recently glided from one new three-story furnace, oozed down chutes and spilled into 26-foot casting cylinders, deep in the floor of the expansion.—Star Tribune, Chicago Tribune, 14 July 2025 The landscapes of icy moons across our Solar System are shaped not by molten lava flows, but by water that boils and freezes simultaneously due to extremely low pressure in space.—Jack Knudson, Discover Magazine, 30 July 2025 After that came a crash, a fire and a death-defying crawl out of molten airplane wreckage.—Kayla Grant, People.com, 30 July 2025 See All Example Sentences for molten
Word History
Etymology
Middle English, from past participle of melten to melt
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