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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
molten
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
molten rock (=rock that is so hot it is liquid)
▪ Molten rock flowed into these cracks.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
lava
▪ Her great horsy face had turned the colour of molten lava and her eyes were glittering with fury.
▪ He was airlifted on to the mountain as molten lava threatened to swamp the village of Zaffarana.
▪ Suddenly, the immense wall of molten lava bearing down from Mount Etna on to their doorsteps came to a halt.
metal
▪ Because the process does not involve handling molten metal, there is no contamination from ladles and tanks.
▪ Elinor and Nigel were soon into their stride, two kinds of molten metal poured into the same mould.
▪ On the small monitor screen his great external weapon was white-hot, seething, dripping molten metal on to the carapace below.
▪ These assemble lines of type, and cast them in relief from molten metal.
rock
▪ By that time the flame was also very thin, and where it touched the wall the molten rock spat and ran.
▪ The molten rock is within half a mile of the gates of Zafferana Etnea, a town of 7,000 people.
▪ In the middle layer is greenish gabbro, molten rock that never made it to the surface of the crust.
▪ Into these flowed more molten rock, carrying minerals such as tin oxide.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
Molten iron is poured into huge moulds and allowed to cool.
molten lava
▪ Castings are made by pouring molten metal into a mould and allowing it to solidify.
▪ Rivers of molten rock were flowing down the sides of the volcano.
▪ The town was buried under a river of molten lava.
▪ You can watch craftsmen make beautiful vases out of molten glass.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ By that time the flame was also very thin, and where it touched the wall the molten rock spat and ran.
▪ It is said that he constructed a tank and poured into it molten gold so that it became one vast molten block.
▪ Some were carrying children, as though the tiny shapes were molten lead running out of their grasp and heavy past holding.
▪ Something seemed to pour through his face and overwhelm her, something molten, timeless, glorious.
▪ The sky turned the colour of molten copper.
▪ They may be composed of impact ejecta, some of which may have been molten.
▪ This crater often gets filled with lakes of lava which remain molten for amazingly long periods.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Molten

Melt \Melt\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Melted (obs.) p. p. Molten; p. pr. & vb. n. Melting.] [AS. meltan; akin to Gr. me`ldein, E. malt, and prob. to E. smelt, v. [root]108. Cf. Smelt, v., Malt, Milt the spleen.]

  1. To reduce from a solid to a liquid state, as by heat; to liquefy; as, to melt wax, tallow, or lead; to melt ice or snow.

  2. Hence: To soften, as by a warming or kindly influence; to relax; to render gentle or susceptible to mild influences; sometimes, in a bad sense, to take away the firmness of; to weaken.

    Thou would'st have . . . melted down thy youth.
    --Shak.

    For pity melts the mind to love.
    --Dryden.

    Syn: To liquefy; fuse; thaw; mollify; soften.

Molten

Molten \Mol"ten\, a. [See Melt.]

  1. Melted; being in a state of fusion, esp. when the liquid state is produced by a high degree of heat; as, molten iron.

  2. Made by melting and casting the substance or metal of which the thing is formed; as, a molten image.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
molten

late 13c., from archaic past participle of Old English meltian, a class III strong verb (see melt (v.)).

Wiktionary
molten
  1. 1 melted. 2 Made from '''molten''' substance. 3 glowing red-hot. alt. 1 melted. 2 Made from '''molten''' substance. 3 glowing red-hot. v

  2. (past participle of melt English)

WordNet
melt
  1. n. the process whereby heat changes something from a solid to a liquid; "the power failure caused a refrigerator melt that was a disaster"; "the thawing of a frozen turkey takes several hours" [syn: thaw, thawing, melting]

  2. [also: molten]

molten

adj. reduced to liquid form by heating; "a mass of molten rock" [syn: liquefied, liquified]

molten

See melt

melt
  1. v. reduce or cause to be reduced from a solid to a liquid state, usually by heating; "melt butter"; "melt down gold"; "The wax melted in the sun" [syn: run, melt down]

  2. become or cause to become soft or liquid; "The sun melted the ice"; "the ice thawed"; "the ice cream melted"; "The heat melted the wax"; "The giant iceberg dissolved over the years during the global warming phase"; "dethaw the meat" [syn: dissolve, thaw, unfreeze, unthaw, dethaw]

  3. become more relaxed, easygoing, or genial; "With age, he mellowed" [syn: mellow, mellow out]

  4. lose its distinct outline or shape; blend gradually; "Hundreds of actors were melting into the scene" [syn: meld]

  5. become less clearly visible or distinguishable; disappear gradually or seemingly; "The scene begins to fade"; "The tree trunks are melting into the forest at dusk" [syn: fade]

  6. become less intense and fade away gradually; "her resistance melted under his charm" [syn: disappear]

  7. [also: molten]

Wikipedia
Mölten

Mölten (; ) is a comune (municipality) in South Tyrol in northern Italy, located about northwest of Bolzano.

Molten (disambiguation)

Molten is a word to describe an object that has melted.

"Molten" may also refer to:

  • Molten Corporation a Japanese sports equipment and automotive parts company
  • Mölten, a municipality in South Tyrol, Italy

Usage examples of "molten".

The result is that we can only say that at some depth, probably less than a mile, the slowly accumulating ice would acquire such a temperature that, subjected to the weight above it, the material next the bottom would become molten, or at least converted into a sludgelike state, in which it could not rub against the bottom, or move stones in the manner of ordinary glaciers.

The notes rippled out of the amplifier, washed through the room like molten metal, hung in the air like stars.

But Isaac had been nowhere in sight and there was no way Brooke could begin the day without molten sludge oozing through her veins, waking her up.

Volcanoes dormant for uncountable millennia suddenly rumbled into full, frightful, fiery life all along the chains of eastern and southern mountains, darkening days with their wind-borne dust and ash, belching molten lava and superheated stones to fire hundreds of square miles of montane forests.

Likewise, Parmenter drew a Fahrenheit pistol captured from one of the English officers and directed a white-hot spray of molten silver against the talos.

I found her asleep in the armchair with the kettle almost molten on the stove and Pickwick firmly ensnared in her knitting.

How many times, in the merciless grinding heat of an Indian summer, lying panting under a flapping punkah that merely disturbed but could not cool the molten air, had he not yearned in imagination for the ice and frost and snow of an English winter ?

Besides, if a Straight Arrow hit that honeycombed armor, it would go in one side and out the other, probably hitting and killing a crewman on its way, and generally spewing enough molten metal from its passage inside the tank that it injured or killed the crew, fried a goodly part of its electronics, and maybe set off its ammunition supply.

Then there came another earthshaking explosion, and sheets of flame came spewing out of the two peaks in twin geysers of liquid fire reaching up and up toward the sky and spattering the sides of nearby peaks with globs of molten rock.

Commander Taris smiled as she watched the starbase explode into a cloud of molten metal.

She got one in her sights and used a proton torpedo while it still made sense, then needled it with laserfire until the torp got there and blew it into molten slag.

The clouds veiling the darkening sky were suddenly rent asunder by a blast of silvery radiance as bright and unbridled as a lightning flash, cascading from the sky in a molten stream.

Filaments of scents, threads of odors, were worked through the shuttle, plated on the loom: cook-house grease, hot popcorn, hot unshelled peanuts, diesel fuel, sawdust, cotton candy, molten caramel from the fragrantly steaming vats in the candy-apple stands.

As the storming parties approached they were swept by artillery and musketry, and as they attempted to climb the breaches, boiling water, pitch and oil, molten lead and unslaked lime were poured upon them.

They were imprisoned by a flaming barrier, sealed in this ventless chamber till more flame entered and snuffed out their lives in a torrent of molten steel.