as in heated
melted by heat
molten metal molten lava
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Or waste could also be deposited in deep shafts where two tectonic plates meet and the waste could be left to slide down into the Earth's molten mantle.
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David Szondy, New Atlas, 28 Dec. 2024
Earth's magnetic field is always in flux due to forces within the fluid outer core (underneath the rocky mantle), where the swirling of molten iron creates massive electrical currents.
—Jack Knudson, Discover Magazine, 26 Dec. 2024
Proof is in this rich and decadent molten cake that has a creamy peanut butter center.
—Patricia S York, Southern Living, 26 Dec. 2024
This complex is highly mobile in the molten sections of the mantle—the part that geologists call magma.
—David Bressan, Forbes, 25 Dec. 2024
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David Szondy, New Atlas, 28 Dec. 2024
Earth's magnetic field is always in flux due to forces within the fluid outer core (underneath the rocky mantle), where the swirling of molten iron creates massive electrical currents.
—Jack Knudson, Discover Magazine, 26 Dec. 2024
Proof is in this rich and decadent molten cake that has a creamy peanut butter center.
—Patricia S York, Southern Living, 26 Dec. 2024
This complex is highly mobile in the molten sections of the mantle—the part that geologists call magma.
—David Bressan, Forbes, 25 Dec. 2024
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The sprawling backyard area has a heated swimming pool.Lana Bortolot, New York Times, 10 Jan. 2025
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Another incident was a heated disagreement with defender Todibo at half-time of the 5-2 home defeat against Arsenal at the end of November.Roshane Thomas, The Athletic, 8 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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Decent talent but sloppy at the wrong times and no serious superstar candidates to suddenly get white-hot for a run.Matt Schneidman, The Athletic, 5 Jan. 2025
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Officially solidified as a white-hot team, Disney took notice (despite the profanity).Katcy Stephan, Variety, 20 Dec. 2024
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The Brutalist is a Fitzcarraldo fable of artistic endeavor, a universal immigrant tale and a searing indictment of capitalism Jones plays opposite Brody as Tóth’s wife, Erzsébet, in an indelible portrait of a woman physically broken by war who remains resolutely unbroken in spirit.Wendell Steavenson, Vogue, 5 Jan. 2025
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The nearly three-hour podcast was a perfect storm of virality: comedy, conspiracy, and searing insult, leaving the internet in tatters.Rob Marriott, VIBE.com, 30 Dec. 2024
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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 21 Jan. 2025.
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