molten

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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

The cold crunch of something raw against something molten is what makes the plate feel complete.

From Salon • Feb. 12, 2026

According to theories, they don’t always erupt explosively but sometimes burst forth in a vast, continuous outpouring–a flood–of molten rock, such as with the Deccan Traps in India sixty-five million years ago.

From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson