molten
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Natural gas is used by glass manufacturers to run their furnaces, which melt sand, soda ash, limestone and recycled glass into molten glass blobs which are then shaped into bottles.
From BBC • Apr. 2, 2026
Over billions of years, ongoing chemical exchanges between the molten interior and the atmosphere have shaped the planet's current appearance.
From Science Daily • Mar. 17, 2026
Isotopic geochemistry suggests the molten material came from Archean continental crust dating between 3.0 and 3.3 billion years old.
From Science Daily • Mar. 1, 2026
Extreme ultraviolet lithography machines, as they are known, shoot lasers into molten tin to create EUV light, which doesn’t exist naturally on earth.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 25, 2026
It sits on top of an enormous hot spot, a reservoir of molten rock that rises from at least 125 miles down in the Earth.
From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson
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