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melted by heat
molten metal molten lava
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Recent Examples of molten
The flipping technique for his classic, beautifully molten-on-the-inside Spanish tortilla takes a good amount of practice to master.
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General Manager,
Los Angeles Times,
14 June 2026
Xcimer intends to address this by using a moving curtain of molten salt inside the reactor chamber instead of a static solid wall.
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Aman Tripathi,
Interesting Engineering,
11 June 2026
This collision was powerful enough to reduce the moon’s surface to molten rock similar to a lava flow.
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Andrew Paul,
Popular Science,
10 June 2026
Part of that use is simply imparting energy into a blanket of molten salt that surrounds the fusion chamber.
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ArsTechnica,
9 June 2026
See All Example Sentences for molten
General Manager,
Los Angeles Times,
14 June 2026
Xcimer intends to address this by using a moving curtain of molten salt inside the reactor chamber instead of a static solid wall.
—
Aman Tripathi,
Interesting Engineering,
11 June 2026
This collision was powerful enough to reduce the moon’s surface to molten rock similar to a lava flow.
—
Andrew Paul,
Popular Science,
10 June 2026
Part of that use is simply imparting energy into a blanket of molten salt that surrounds the fusion chamber.
—
ArsTechnica,
9 June 2026
See All Example Sentences for molten
Recent Examples of Synonyms for molten
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Other players have covered their mouths while speaking to opponents during the World Cup, but a red card is only issued if the conversation occurs during a confrontation or heated exchange.
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The living room has hardwood floors and beamed ceilings; the kitchen includes a peninsula and a sitting area that opens to a balcony; and the primary suite features a bath with heated floors.
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Sampling the air using sediments from the seabed The Toarcian warming event is one of a dozen or so periods of climate change in the geological past that were triggered by enormous volcanic phenomena known as large igneous provinces.
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Formed from the uplift of igneous and metamorphic rock and carved by the Colorado River through erosion, the Grand Canyon remains one of America's natural treasures.
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More humane methods of killing lobsters pre-boiling include a sharp knife through the head, electrical stunning, or freezing.
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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.
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Flashover typically causes severe burns, particularly on the face, beck and upper limbs, often combined with critical inhalation injures from radiant heat and superheated gases.
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Marzocchi says the data suggest that, for now, the tremors are more the result of gases pushing superheated water up through the earth, rather than magma rising.
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But after 90-plus minutes against Cape Verde on Sunday night at Hard Rock Stadium, the smiles turned to seething expressions and consternation.
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For days, my inbox filled with seething emails, and I was tagged in social media posts full of personal and professional smears – all for defending Bezos and the company millions of Americans use every day.
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When the quartet collides in the film’s climactic fight, each has his own motivation and a reason to feel white-hot, incandescent rage.
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But this summer of white-hot IPOs—SpaceX, OpenAI, and Anthropic—could be the crucial moment where the lights flicker on.
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In a sizzling dissent for the court's three liberals, Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson castigated the majority for diminishing not just individual religious rights, but the power of Congress to legislate.
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The sizzling heat will stick around through the weekend with high temperatures in the low 90s.
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On Wednesday, New York Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch outlined a slew of challenges facing the city this weekend, including huge Independence Day celebrations, a World Cup match and a searing heat wave.
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What began as searing pain in one of his arms was now a relentless ache in his chest.
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“Molten.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/molten. Accessed 6 Jul. 2026.
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