molten

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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

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

Roughly 3000 km below the surface, a vast ocean of molten, churning liquid iron fills the outer core.

From Science Daily • Feb. 25, 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

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