Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Made liquid by heat; melted.
- adjective Made by melting and casting in a mold.
- adjective Brilliantly glowing, from or as if from intense heat.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Having molted; being in the state of molting.
- Melted; in a state of fusion or solution: as, molten gold.
- Made or produced by means of melting.
- Liquid.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Melted; being in a state of fusion, esp. when the liquid state is produced by a high degree of heat.
- adjective Made by melting and casting the substance or metal of which the thing is formed.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective
Melted . - adjective Made from molten substance.
- adjective
Glowing red-hot. - verb Past participle of
melt
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective reduced to liquid form by heating
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Examples
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To resist the washout and soldering, die materials should have high hot hardness, good temper resistance, low solubility in molten aluminum and good oxidation resistance.
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Ash from the process is captured in molten glass, producing an obsidian-like material that can be buried in landfills or used in construction materials.
The Winners, Category by Category Michael Totty 2010
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This invisible barrier forms so quickly that aluminum seems, even in molten form, to be an inert metal.
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Their program would save and store captured solar energy in molten salt, the new solar plant will produce up to 500 megawatts of peak power — comparable to what a regular coal power plant can produce, only with no greenhouse gas emissions.
Commercializing Solar Power with Molten Salt | Inhabitat 2008
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Their program would save and store captured solar energy in molten salt, the new solar plant will produce up to 500 megawatts of peak power — comparable to what a regular coal power plant can produce, only with no greenhouse gas emissions.
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Ok, let me get this straight, you were doing backstokes in molten lava to test that new diving suit and this beast came out of nowhere and swallowed you whole?
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It sucked in molten rock through its slatted gills and shot it out in an arcing stream of hardening glass towards the meat icicles.
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The basic idea is that uranium and existing lead separate when in molten lava.
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I am unfortunately immersed in molten lava from an erupting volcano.
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Preacher lady and the Jesus police start mumbling and beseeching G_d to strike me down and boil me in molten tar.
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mshalston commented on the word molten
Once upon a time, molten was the past tense of melt.
January 29, 2007
seanahan commented on the word molten
That's fun to know. Kind of like wrought was the past tense of work.
January 29, 2007