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melted by heat
molten metal molten lava
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Recent Examples of molten
Furthermore, the team's analysis suggests that there could be up to 105 cubic miles of molten rock in the crust beneath northeastern Yellowstone.
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Dan Perry, Newsweek, 2 Jan. 2025
Next is the liquid outer core, made of molten iron and nickel, which is about 1,300 miles thick and has temperatures between 8,000 and 10,000 degrees.
—Tommy Tuberville, Newsweek, 8 Jan. 2025
For example, the magma nearest the surface of the Yellowstone Caldera contains a lot of silica, which lends the molten rocks a sticky, viscous, and slow-moving quality.
—Paul Smaglik, Discover Magazine, 3 Jan. 2025
Learning more about the magma under Yellowstone Yellowstone is one of the planet's largest volcanic systems, a place where a plume of the Earth's molten core rises up through the solid rock of crust, heating and melting it to form reservoirs of magma 2½ to 30 miles below the surface.
—Elizabeth Weise, USA TODAY, 1 Jan. 2025
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Dan Perry, Newsweek, 2 Jan. 2025
Next is the liquid outer core, made of molten iron and nickel, which is about 1,300 miles thick and has temperatures between 8,000 and 10,000 degrees.
—Tommy Tuberville, Newsweek, 8 Jan. 2025
For example, the magma nearest the surface of the Yellowstone Caldera contains a lot of silica, which lends the molten rocks a sticky, viscous, and slow-moving quality.
—Paul Smaglik, Discover Magazine, 3 Jan. 2025
Learning more about the magma under Yellowstone Yellowstone is one of the planet's largest volcanic systems, a place where a plume of the Earth's molten core rises up through the solid rock of crust, heating and melting it to form reservoirs of magma 2½ to 30 miles below the surface.
—Elizabeth Weise, USA TODAY, 1 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for molten
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Each offer multiple dining options, robust spa services, and heated pools.—
Brad Japhe,
Travel + Leisure,
22 Jan. 2025
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Outdoors, a heated in-ground swimming pool, a lounge area, and a barbecue station are positioned around a landscaped lot that’s just shy of an acre.—
Abby Montanez,
Robb Report,
22 Jan. 2025
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This magma then pushed through the cracks in the rocks around it, cooling and crystallizing over millions of years to form Spruce Pine’s bounty of pegmatites—igneous rock that’s chock-full of quartz crystals.—
Olatunji Osho-Williams,
Smithsonian Magazine,
3 Oct. 2024
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As the National Academies report explains, carbon-dioxide–rich fluids injected into basalt or peridotite formations (two kinds of igneous rock that make up much of the earth’s mantle) react with the rock, converting the dissolved carbon dioxide into solid carbon-containing minerals.—
Fred Krupp,
Foreign Affairs,
12 Feb. 2019
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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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If candy is still stuck on, pour more boiling water over whatever hasn’t come clean.—
Washington Post,
Washington Post,
3 Dec. 2019
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Meanwhile, debris is collected near the black hole and starts to swirl around it, forming into a bright, superheated accretion disc.—
Jack Knudson,
Discover Magazine,
17 Dec. 2024
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This superheated environment leaves little room for serious consideration of the United States’ historical experience, beyond the easy and oversimplified analogy to the Vietnam War.—
Mark Atwood Lawrence,
Foreign Affairs,
27 Aug. 2021
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This helps explain why Gabbard elicits a seething hatred from people like Frum, Clinton, and Nichols.—
Matt Robison,
Newsweek,
21 Nov. 2024
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The posts linked a global network of agitators who have seized on the influx of migrants seeking political asylum or economic opportunity to build seething followings online.—
Steven Lee Myers,
New York Times,
10 Aug. 2024
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Davis’ white-hot gala will take place on Feb. 1, the same day of the Special Merit Awards, which will pay tribute to Prince, Frankie Beverly, The Clash, Dr. Bobby Jones, Taj Mahal, Roxanne Shante and Frankie Valli.—
Mesfin Fekadu,
The Hollywood Reporter,
15 Jan. 2025
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In 2018, astronomers observed that the black hole’s corona – a cloud of whirling, white-hot plasma – suddenly disappeared before reassembling months later.—
Eric Lagatta,
USA TODAY,
14 Jan. 2025
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At the end of the day, room could not be found for even Marianne Jean-Baptiste, a past Oscar nominee who swept the major critics awards for her searing turn in Hard Truths, or Angelina Jolie, a past Oscar winner and the A-lister of A-listers, who seemed an early front-runner for the biopic Maria.—
Scott Feinberg,
The Hollywood Reporter,
23 Jan. 2025
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Working for New York Gov. Nelson Rockefeller in California’s 1964 Republican presidential primary, the pair ran a searing campaign against Arizona Sen. Barry Goldwater, falling just shy of an upset.—
Mark Z. Barabak,
Los Angeles Times,
13 Jan. 2025
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In between walking red carpets and attending charity events together, the pair welcomed two children, daughters Evangeline Ruth and Elijah.—
Ellie Beeck,
Peoplemag,
6 Feb. 2023
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Music’s biggest night returns to Los Angeles on Sunday, and along with it, one of Hollywood’s grandest red carpets.—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
5 Feb. 2023
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“Molten.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/molten. Accessed 28 Jan. 2025.
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