Sentences with phrase «molten state»
The phrase "molten state" refers to a substance that has been heated to a high temperature and has changed from a solid into a liquid form. Full definition
The investigators also performed an analysis of common minerals in igneous rocks — those formed from a hot molten state.
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Calculations show that the earth, originating from a completely molten state, would have cooled and become completely solid many thousands of years ago without an energy input in addition to that of the sun.
Fortunately for scientists, there are minerals — such as magnetite — that lock in the magnetic field record at the time the minerals cooled from their molten state.
The surprising structural memory effect in the molten state is responsible for the unexpected change from magnetic repulsion to magnetic attraction in bismuth.
Several sites on the near side sampled by Apollo astronauts had rocks enriched with KREEP — for potassium (K), rare earth elements (REE) and phosphorus (P)-- which resists crystallization from magma and hence remains in a molten state until the entire magma ocean has solidified.
Before the eruption, it was in a molten state, deep underground.
Dr. Robert V. Gentry, the world's leading researcher on radiohalos, has proposed the following explanation for this mystery.61 He correctly notes that halos can not form in a liquid, so they could not have formed while the rock was solidifying from a molten state.
Not the molten salt plant — instead, there's a reserve of salt inside the tower that gets heated to a molten state, and, as Inhabitat explains, «The molten salt is then pumped into a reserve tank and maintains close to all of its original heat.
Of course, unless the Earth was continuing its cooling from the molten state, and CO2 was following the natural decline from the 95 % at 100 bar levels earlier on, with odd exceptions due to natural events.