molten

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Roughly 3000 km below the surface, a vast ocean of molten, churning liquid iron fills the outer core.

From Science Daily • Feb. 25, 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

As this molten rock pushed upward, it fractured surrounding rock layers, triggering thousands of earthquakes and tremors.

From Science Daily • Feb. 17, 2026

What they dug out was at points like "molten lava".

From BBC • Feb. 12, 2026

It was a dangerous volcano, a deadly cone filled with molten rock and poisonous gases.

From "I Survived the Eruption of Mount St. Helens, 1980" by Lauren Tarshis