Sentences with phrase «molten liquid cools»

Most of the nuggets inside Allende were darker, rich in glassy silicate minerals that form when molten liquid cools rapidly.

You can even stand on the lava fields and see the molten liquid cooling before your eyes.

Not exact matches

As the alloy cools down it enters a state known as a «supercooled liquid» wherein it remains molten, despite the temperature having dropped below the melting point.

Novel designs with alternative cooling fluids other than water, such as Transatomic Power's molten salt — cooled reactor or the liquid lead — bismuth design from Hyperion Power, are in development.

The study, according to Valley, strengthens the theory of a «cool early Earth,» where temperatures were low enough for liquid water, oceans and a hydrosphere not long after the planet's crust congealed from a sea of molten rock.

Furthermore, any polonium in the molten rock would have decayed long before the liquid could cool enough to solidify.