melt

Workers in Building 602 made boosters through a process called melt casting, in which TNT is heated to a molten state and mixed with a more sensitive compound to increase its shock energy.

The globe-trotting “Sir Johnny” proves elusive, but sunnier weather causes a melting snowman in Kensington Gardens to yield the frozen corpse of a figure central to the case.

For centuries it was “the world’s greatest melting pot” of indigenous, European, African, Caribbean and Asian peoples, the crossroads of the vast Spanish empire.

This ongoing movement brings warm water upward, increasing melting and erosion at the glacier's edge and promoting further calving.

A spoonful of brown sugar becomes caramel as it melts; diced apples collapse into little pockets of warmth; cinnamon laces the air with something almost nostalgic.