molten

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Over billions of years, ongoing chemical exchanges between the molten interior and the atmosphere have shaped the planet's current appearance.

From Science Daily • Mar. 17, 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

Silas’s unmoving exterior was like the hard crust of rock over molten lava.

From "The Graveyard Book" by Neil Gaiman