molten

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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

Known as a mantle plume, this steady column of molten rock originates far below the surface.

From Science Daily • Feb. 23, 2026

The mantle lies between the planet's thin outer crust and its molten core.

From Science Daily • Feb. 20, 2026

What they dug out was at points like "molten lava".

From BBC • Feb. 12, 2026

She remembered the way that power rippled through Elowen like molten ore, hot and precious.

From "Huntress" by Malinda Lo