magma
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Magma is very hard to locate underground, but in 2009 Icelandic engineers made a chance discovery.
From BBC • Oct. 17, 2024
"This would be a secondary atmosphere that is continuously replenished by the magma ocean. Magma is not just crystals and liquid rock; there's a lot of dissolved gas in it, too."
From Science Daily • May 8, 2024
Magma from that blast has been found in Greenland, some 4,500 km away.
From Reuters • Oct. 5, 2023
That’s a lot for a town still clawing back economically after the Magma copper mine first shut down in 1982, later opened for a few years, then closed for good in 1996.
From Seattle Times • Jun. 29, 2023
Magma, mag′ma, n. any soft doughy mass: the molten mass within the earth's crust: the residuum after expressing the juice from fruits.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) by Various
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