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melted by heat
molten metal molten lava
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Recent Examples of molten
This represents a next-gen nuclear tech in which the fuel is mixed with the molten salt, unlike traditional reactors that rely on solid fuels.
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Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 9 Sep. 2025
These processes created microscopic craters and splashes of molten rock on the asteroid's surface, according to the paper.
—Sharmila Kuthunur, Space.com, 2 Sep. 2025
Steve Lundblad, a University of Hawaii at Hilo geology professor, said the vent may have gotten wider, leaving molten rock less pressurized.
—CNN Money, 2 Sep. 2025
Lakes gleamed like molten metal in the dryness and on the horizon a faint squiggle of suede-soft mountains.
—The Editors, Outside, 31 Aug. 2025
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Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 9 Sep. 2025
These processes created microscopic craters and splashes of molten rock on the asteroid's surface, according to the paper.
—Sharmila Kuthunur, Space.com, 2 Sep. 2025
Steve Lundblad, a University of Hawaii at Hilo geology professor, said the vent may have gotten wider, leaving molten rock less pressurized.
—CNN Money, 2 Sep. 2025
Lakes gleamed like molten metal in the dryness and on the horizon a faint squiggle of suede-soft mountains.
—The Editors, Outside, 31 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for molten
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Guests can enjoy amenities such as a heated pool, hot tub, sauna, rotating art exhibitions, and landscaped courtyards with firepits and hammocks.—
Taryn White,
Travel + Leisure,
5 Oct. 2025
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While what kind of crust a Key Lime pie should have is often up for discussion, there’s no debate as heated as what should top the tangy pie.—
Amber Love Bond,
Southern Living,
4 Oct. 2025
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Today’s rich variety of igneous rocks forms thanks to complex processes, including remelting, adsorption, and exchange of chemical elements, happening in Earth’s crust and driven by plate tectonics.—
David Bressan,
Forbes.com,
16 Sep. 2025
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In its own storied past, Earth experienced prolonged eruptions of lava in single regions, known as large igneous provinces (LIPs), that lasted for hundreds of thousands and perhaps millions of years.—
Quanta Magazine,
Quanta Magazine,
15 Sep. 2025
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Agrawal and her team studied ionic liquids — salts that are liquid at sub-boiling temperatures (below 212 degrees Fahrenheit, or 100 degrees Celsius) — as a potential hospitable environment for life.—
Stefanie Waldek,
Space.com,
13 Aug. 2025
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One idea is that about a million years after the Big Bang, the universe cooled and underwent a phase transition, an event similar to how boiling water turns liquid into gas.—
Yasemin Saplakoglu,
Scientific American,
3 Mar. 2020
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Two forces of nature merged in a Hawaii volcano when a superheated whirlwind began dancing around a gushing lava fountain, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.—
Mark Price,
Sacbee.com,
5 Sep. 2025
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The black hole's pulses are the result of fluctuations in the superheated plasma swirling around it (also known as the accretion disk) and the inner region called the corona, which can reach extreme temperatures and radiate incredibly luminous X-rays.—
Samantha Mathewson,
Space.com,
15 Aug. 2025
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After his second impeachment by the House of Representatives in January 2021, there were reports that a seething Trump was not going to pay his personal attorney's legal fees.—
Angel Saunders,
People.com,
2 Sep. 2025
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This means that voters and Congress members alike are driven not so much by loyalty to their own party but instead a sort of seething hatred for the other political party.—
Charlie Hunt,
The Conversation,
13 June 2025
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That thing — that white-hot moment for rock — was never the same in that way again.—
Angie Martoccio,
Rolling Stone,
25 Sep. 2025
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Pairing indie darling Kogonada (Columbus, After Yang) with white-hot, potentially commercial material indeed seemed like a big, bold, beautiful idea.—
Richard Lawson,
HollywoodReporter,
16 Sep. 2025
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To be sure, the label — which made a name for itself with its ‘90s aesthetic of unfussy silhouettes heavy on sizzling embellishments and tie-dye — resonates more abroad than in the domestic market.—
Sandra Salibian,
Footwear News,
3 Oct. 2025
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Mun-ju doesn’t plan to fall for San-ho so quickly after her husband’s death, but the heightened emotion of life-or-death situations spur a sizzling chemistry and deep connection that cannot be ignored.—
Kayti Burt,
Time,
3 Oct. 2025
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His own divorce from actress Jennifer Jason Leigh informed his Oscar-winning Marriage Story (2019), a searing look at love unraveling.—
Scott Roxborough,
HollywoodReporter,
3 Oct. 2025
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And McConaughey, as a nervy reluctant hero, steers the searing, intense narrative about normal people living through the most hellish of circumstances.—
Brian Truitt,
USA Today,
2 Oct. 2025
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“Molten.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/molten. Accessed 7 Oct. 2025.
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