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the state where solids stop pretending and start flowing like rivers of liquid fire
means Reduced to liquid by intense heat, as with melted metal, rock, or glass.
from An old past participle of "melt," from Old English "meltan," to dissolve or become liquid. "Melt" later grew a regular ending ("melted"), but "molten" lingered on as a survivor — the antique form kept around for things that glow and flow, like lava and iron. It's a cousin of the same Germanic root that gave Dutch "smelten" and German "schmelzen," and is distantly related to words for softening and dissolving.
- earth's core
- Outer core is molten iron, 5400 Celsius
- glass age
- Molten glass blown into shapes for 2000 years
- lava speed
- Molten basalt can flow 60 kilometers per hour
- word root
- From Old English meltan, simply to melt
- steel birth
- Modern furnaces melt iron at 1500 Celsius
kilauea lava lake — hawaii's volcano with persistent molten lava lake, active since 1983
mount nyiragongo — congo volcano with world's largest persistent lava lake, roughly 1000°c
steel foundry slag — molten iron byproduct at ~1600°c, dumped into rivers in pittsburgh until regulations