Sentences with phrase «when molten»

When molten lava meets the cooling waters of the Pacific, things can get violent.

Explore submerged lava tubes and cathedral - like grottoes formed when molten lava met the sea.

They are usually the voids left when the molten lava cools and contracts.

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

The fact that amorphous metal is thick and like plastic when molten permits the formation of a foam panel that is 99 percent air but roughly 100 times stronger than polystyrene.

New research from The University of Texas at Austin adds evidence to a theory that claims the metallic cores of rocky planets like Earth were formed when molten metal trapped between grains of silicate rock percolated to the center of the planet during its early formation.

The crystals are created when molten rock — magma — from up to 30 km beneath a volcano starts to move upwards towards the Earth's surface.

Igneous rocks are formed when molten rock (magma) cools and solidifies, with or without crystallization, either below the surface as intrusive (plutonic) rocks or on the surface as extrusive (volcanic) rocks.

The material acquired its black marks and diamond - shaped holes when molten silver from the box that housed the folded cloth was dropped onto it before the fire was extinguished.

Not exact matches

When Sandy struck, it knocked out electricity for two days, which disabled four of the company's furnaces, which were keeping glass molten at 2,500 degrees Fahrenheit.

After nine months of silence it came streaming out like the molten metal when issue is given to it.»

Micah, the Ephraimite, had an image of Yahweh; (Judges 17:3 - 4) Gideon made one out of captured gold; (Judges 8:24 - 27) the teraphim were household gods, human enough in appearance to supply David with a substitute when he fled from his foes; (I Samuel 19:12 - 16 [cf. Genesis 31:17 - 35]-RRB- and, indeed, so customary were «graven images» that while early protests were made, as in the law of Exodus, «Thou shalt make thee no molten gods,» (Exodus 34:17.)

I first discovered it when I was 16 and would often go to Chilis with my friends and order just that, «just the molten chocolate cake, please.»

Not to let the juices rest, because they will be about the temperature of molten lava when they first come off the grill.

I love the brown sugar meringue, in fact I used one just this past weekend when I made my molten chocolate cakes, but I love the use of it in this recipe.

These little cakes have a molten lava center that oozes out when cut.

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They are dark, chocolaty, not - too - sweet, and filled with molten chocolate chips when served warm from the oven.

You simply can't go wrong when combining molten cheese with practically any vegetable and then roast them together until they're all caramelized, creamy and crunchy in every bite.

There are lots of lava cakes out there, but our Peek - A-Boo Chocolate Truffle has a heart of pure chocolate ganache (a rich mixture of dairy heavy cream and fine chocolate), which transforms into a most luxuriously rich molten chocolate sauce when gently warmed.

Lava tubes are created when an outer stream of molten rock solidifies and the lava inside drains away.

Perhaps when the moon was young, molten and spinning rapidly, it was naturally distorted by its motion.

When the solar system formed, Mercury was a hot ball of molten material.

Such shapes form when gas bubbles expand in molten rock that then catastrophically explodes — a feature of violent eruptions involving water, and which can be seen under glaciers in Iceland, for example.

These minerals floated to the surface when the infant moon was still molten after its birth in a violent run - in between Earth and another planet.

Previously, some teams have proposed that these floods resulted when immense subterranean reservoirs of ice were suddenly melted by the rise of molten material from deep within the Red Planet, and others have suggested that the water was carried from distant regions via aquifers and then somehow abruptly released.

WHAT CAUSES THEM: When magma — molten rock — rises through a vent in Earth's surface, it is exposed to air.

«You can store the energy using thermal or chemical means,» she adds, such as by using a chemical such as molten salt that liquefies when heated and then gives off that heat when it later solidifies.

Scientists have long suspected that our planetary companion was built when a Mars - sized body — commonly known as Theia — struck the young Earth, throwing molten rock into orbit that coalesced into the Moon.

The researchers measured the viscosity of molten glass at more than 1,000 degrees Celsius and the density of the glass when cooled and formed.

«We are using sharp needles at a high temperature, when the plastic is molten,» explains John Hughes, the inventor of the fingerprinting system.

Back when Earth was still forming and the moon was a molten ball — some 4.5 billion years ago — the chunks of rock and ice there never moved on to bigger things.

Geochemists Graham Pearson and Stephen Parman of Durham University in England examined bits of metal from the mantle that had been thrust up onto Earth's surface by plate tectonics for signs that would indicate when the metal had been molten.

How it works: When demand is low, mirrors reflect sunlight onto tanks of molten salt, heating them almost to 1,000 F.

Geologists don't agree on whether the infant Earth's surface was hot and molten or stable and cool — or even when the first solid crust formed.

Researchers long ago realized that the strength of the drops — named for Prince Rupert of Bavaria, who presented five of them to Britain's King Charles II in 1660 — has something to do with stresses in the glass created when a drop is made by letting a blob of molten glass fall into water, so that it cools rapidly.

The contraction of the molten metal as it cooled was slightly less than the expansion when it solidified.

When a bolt strikes the soil it burns a molten, hollow tube called a fulgurite that Pasek says looks like a «mini volcano with glass splattered around it.»

Formed when rainwater collects deep below the Earth's rocky crust and is heated by molten magma, the springs are rich in minerals that many feel have beneficial health effects.

A previous paper by Garrick - Bethell and some of the same coauthors described the effects of tidal stretching and heating of the moon's crust at a time 4.4 billion years ago when the solid outer crust still floated on an ocean of molten rock.

The crystal, from a time when Earth was still molten and firey, predates previously found evidence of life by 300 million years.

This happened in 1986 when a nuclear power plant at Chernobyl caught fire and exploded, showering surrounding territory with radioactive particles and threatening to let molten uranium fuel seep deep into the ground.

However, the thermal energy CSP generates can be held back for several hours via storage systems such as molten salts — and then used after the sun sets when demand is still high for, say, air conditioning, television, and lighting.

A California firm is converting sunlight to heat and storing it in molten salt so it can supply electricity when the wind is calm or the sun isn't shining

Erik Hauri at the Carnegie Institution of Washington and his colleagues analysed lunar rocks and estimate that meteorites equivalent to just 0.001 to 0.004 lunar masses could have brought water to the molten moon when it was 100 million years old (Earth and Planetary Science Letters, doi.org/xk6).

When the planet formed about 4.6 billion year ago, it was a hellish world of molten lava.

Because the Earth was molten when it was just formed, almost all of the gold present in the early Earth probably sank into the planetary core.

Such shapes form when gas bubbles expand in molten rock that then catastrophically explodes — a feature of violent eruptions involving water, and which can be seen under glaciers in Iceland, for example, researchers said.

Bentonite clay is basically composites of volcano ash formed when volcanoes spew molten earth from the planet's core.

Clinoptilolite is formed when volcanic molten lava comes in contact with seawater.