MOLTEN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does molten mean? 

• MOLTEN (adjective)
  The adjective MOLTEN has 1 sense:

1. reduced to liquid form by heating

  Familiarity information: MOLTEN used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MOLTEN (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Reduced to liquid form by heating

Synonyms:

liquefied; liquified; molten

Context example:

a mass of molten rock

Similar:

liquid; liquified; melted (changed from a solid to a liquid state)

 Context examples 

The high activity of molten electrolytes is what allows this charging to occur, according to Licht.

(New, high-energy rechargeable batteries, NSF)

A team of University of Utah seismologists has discovered a reservoir of hot, partly molten rock hidden 12 to 28 miles beneath Yellowstone's supervolcano.

(Yellowstone magma discovery, NSF)

The experiments indicate that the pattern of volatile element depletion in the Earth was established by reaction between molten rock and an oxygen-poor atmosphere.

(Fiery Collisions That Gave Birth to Earth Could Have Evaporated 40% of Our World, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

JPL scientists used a high-temperature "oven" to heat a mixture of hydrogen and carbon monoxide to more than 2,000 degrees Fahrenheit (1,100 Celsius), about the temperature of molten lava.

(Cooking up Alien Atmospheres on Earth, NASA)

“At first, we couldn’t understand how the gases could emerge much colder than the molten lava sloshing in the lake.”

(Size matters: if you are a bubble of volcanic gas, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

In 2007, radar observations made from Earth revealed small shifts in the spin of Mercury, called librations, that proved some of Mercury’s core must be liquid-molten metal.

(A Closer Look at Mercury’s Spin and Gravity Reveals the Planet’s Inner Solid Core, NASA)

They argued that during the first half of the planet's 4.5-billion-year history, the bottom third of Earth's mantle would have been molten, which they call "the basal magma ocean."

(Earth's mantle, not its core, may have generated planet's early magnetic field, National Science Foundation)

Curtain eruptions occur on Earth where molten rock, or magma, gushes out of a deep fracture.

(Saturn Moon's Activity Could Be 'Curtain Eruptions', NASA)

The intervening bay was a dull sheen of molten metal, whereon sailing craft lay motionless or drifted with the lazy tide.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Between gulps of the molten stuff I glanced down at my raw and bleeding chest and turned to the Scandinavian.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)