… the molten sunlight of warm skies …—T. B. Costain
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obsolete: made by melting and casting
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Heat from the reactor is carried by a secondary sodium loop to intermediate heat exchangers, which then transfer energy to a molten-salt loop connected to thermal storage tanks.—David Szondy
march 08, New Atlas, 8 Mar. 2026 The project recently received air turbine units, generators, electric motors, molten salt storage tanks, and other core equipment from Shanghai Electric.—Prabhat Ranjan Mishra, Interesting Engineering, 6 Mar. 2026 Once separated, and still molten, the waste was poured on the ground like lava.—Sarah Henry, AZCentral.com, 1 Mar. 2026 That interpretation implied the young moon once hosted a vigorous internal dynamo — a molten, convecting core capable of generating a global magnetic field, much like Earth’s today.—Stefanie Waldek, Space.com, 27 Feb. 2026 See All Example Sentences for molten
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Etymology
Middle English, from past participle of melten to melt