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molten

[mohl-tn] / ˈmoʊl tn /
ADJECTIVE
melted
Synonyms


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Aluminum Company, which will turn molten metal from the smelter into products such as specialty alloys and wire rod.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 12, 2026

The one that appears alongside onion petals, Monte Cristos and a molten chocolate lava cake that arrives under a small weather system of powdered sugar.

From Salon • Apr. 7, 2026

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

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

Immediately all the past miserable months fell away from him as he stood breathing the hot, well-remembered odor of molten gold and hearing the chiming of a little hammer.

From "The Golden Goblet" by Eloise Jarvis McGraw




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