molten
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- adjective
- /ˈmoʊltən/
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- The blacksmith poured molten metal into the mold to create a sword.
- molten salt
- molten rock
- molten glass
So if you got lava, you have molten rock and it cools off.
- So if you got lava, you have molten rock and it cools off.
- Because the the Wick is drawing the molten wax in.
- And those, the shape of those pores reflects the shearing as the molten lava flowed down the volcano.
- Imagine a world where suddenly it's raining drops of molten glass.
- Next one is golden egg soaked in a toffee scented bath of molten gold and fair trade Colombian cocoa butter.
- We found ways to store that energy in increasingly capacious batteries and even in molten salt.
Examples
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What is there is molten plastic coming out of the motor.
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And let's go to when our molten chocolate cake is ready.
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What could be better than hot molten cheese, right?
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You might be wondering why molten salt and not regular water?
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Billions of years ago, the earth was a molten mass...
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So Mars used to have a molten core, but over time it cooled down.
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The blast opened a crater and sent ash and molten rock raining down.
Academic text (2009) -
His eyes welled, and bright molten tears ran down his cheeks.
Fiction book (1993) -
We're forming molten steel and also molten aluminum oxide.
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Ash and the blacksmith pour molten iron into a large sand mold.
Fiction book (1992)
Synonyms
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Become a liquid when heated or put under pressure
Becomes liquid when heated or under pressure
To change from a solid into a liquid because of heat, like ice to water
To turn from a solid into a liquid
Antonyms
How Hot
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Molten comes from the common verb melt, which means 'to become liquid by heat', so molten describes something that has been melted into a liquid by very high temperature.