molten
a past participle of melt1.
liquefied by heat; in a state of fusion; melted: molten lead.
produced by melting and casting: a molten image.
Origin of molten
1Other words from molten
- mol·ten·ly, adverb
- su·per·mol·ten, adjective
- un·mol·ten, adjective
Words Nearby molten
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How to use molten in a sentence
The staple looks enticing, served in a raised bowl with a molten cap of Emmental and Gruyere cheeses.
Without warning, as summer gave way to autumn, my lower back began aching, as though loaded with molten lava.
Did Thru-Hiking the Appalachian Trail Ruin My Body? | Grayson Haver Currin | January 25, 2021 | Outside OnlineThis melting process is tricky, explains Truex, because there’s no good way to take the temperature of the molten metal since any thermometer placed in it will melt.
Ultimately, understanding how the molten materials deep within the Earth became rocks provides Iacovino insights about the overall geological makeup and origins of Earth.
Scientists have long considered it the hell of the solar system, hotter than molten lead and with an unbreathable atmosphere.
Hope for life on Venus survives for centuries against all odds | Tom Siegfried | September 25, 2020 | Science News
There is no better thing on a Sunday afternoon than a fruity, molten, crunchy crumble.
The Barefoot Contessa Knows How To Make Us Crumble | Ina Garten | November 30, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTUnderneath, however, lies the permanently molten lava of Scottish memory and its sense of English repression.
The moist rectangle of cooked meat and molten blob of cheese are then layered in a hard roll.
So, geologists have to look to other dating methods, ones that can measure into the period when rocks were still molten.
When Earth first formed, its surface was molten, so there are no rocks for us to study from that era.
They are turned back: let them be greatly confounded, that trust in a graven thing, that say to a molten thing: You are our god.
The Bible, Douay-Rheims Version | VariousWhat doth the graven thing avail, because the maker thereof hath graven it, a molten, and a false image?
The Bible, Douay-Rheims Version | VariousThrough the fissures and crevices sheets of white sun-rays poured like molten silver.
Black Diamonds | Mr JkaiThe great rift in the volcano widened, and the molten lava was visible until steam rose again.
The Flaming Mountain | Harold Leland GoodwinThe cylinder of platinum gauze may be made by joining the ends of rolled gauze with pieces of molten glass.
The Elements of Qualitative Chemical Analysis, vol. 1, parts 1 and 2. | Julius Stieglitz
British Dictionary definitions for molten
/ (ˈməʊltən) /
liquefied; melted: molten lead
made by having been melted: molten casts
the past participle of melt
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