Definitions

1. Initially molten, the outer layer of the planet Earth cooled to form a solid crust when water began accumulating in the atmosphere.
2. When molten, the salt sodium chloride can be electrolyzed to yield metallic sodium and gaseous chlorine. (Web site)

Hot Molten Rocks

1. When the hot molten rocks reach the surface of the Earth, they are called lava. (Web site)
2. When they are inside the Earth, the hot molten rocks are known as magma. (Web site)
3. Igneous rocks got their name from the Latin word ignis, which means 'fire', because they are formed from hot molten rocks inside the Earth. (Web site)

Hot Molten Rock

1. When this happens, hot molten rock spews up from the Earth and creates a volcano. (Web site)
2. Fiercely hot molten rock from deep inside the earth pushes its way out and lights everything in its path on fire.
3. It starts as a vent, hole, or crack in the Earth's surface, through which hot molten rock (lava), gases, and tephra erupt.

Active

1. The active or recently active volcanoes of the Cascade range created by the upward migration of magma (molten rock) above the Juan de Fuca plate.

Molten Salt

1. In this process methane, and a source of oxygen are introduced into a molten salt, maintained at a temperature of at least about 500.degree.

Molten Salts

1. Electrolytes include water solutions of acids, bases, or salts; certain pure liquids; and molten salts.
2. Properly sized storage systems, commonly consisting of molten salts, can transform a solar plant into a supplier of continuous baseload electricity.
3. Iridium is not damaged by any of the acids nor by aqua regia which dissolves gold and platinum; but it is affected by molten salts. (Web site)

Molten Rock Beneath

1. Magma: Molten rock beneath the surface of the earth. (Web site)
2. Magma is molten or partially molten rock beneath the Earth's surface.

Igneous Rocks Form

1. Igneous rocks form when molten rock cools and becomes solid. (Web site)
2. The molten rock material from which igneous rocks form is called magma.
3. Igneous rocks form when molten material cools and hardens.

Molten Silicon

1. The molten silicon obtained can be used directly for subsequent casting processes, for example, for the manufacture of shaped articles, plates, bars or rods. (Web site)

Aqueous Solutions

1. Strong electrolytes conduct electricity only when molten or in aqueous solutions.

Molten State

1. Unlike other igneous rocks that develop from the molten state, pegmatites grow from aqueous solutions. (Web site)
2. Igneous rock: A rock formed by congealing rapidly or slowly from a molten state.
3. At these temperatures, the salts melt into a molten state that can conduct charged particles, called ions, between two porous electrodes. (Web site)

Scientists

1. Scientists have divided igneous rocks into two broad categories based on where the molten rock solidified.
2. Scientists believe the asthenosphere is made up of mushy plastic-like rock with pockets of molten rock. (Web site)
3. Scientists concluded in 2003 that molten magma is just 400 metres (1,300 ft) below the summit crater. (Web site)

Glass

1. Pieces of hot glass, often shaped like flowers, were smoothed into a glass object of contrasting colour by marvering when the glass was still molten. (Web site)
2. Slow cooling gives time for the nucleation and growth of crystals; fast cooling forces the molten rock to freeze into a fine-grained mass or a glass.
3. The glass is shaped when either fully molten, by casting, or when in a state of toffee-like viscosity, by methods such as blowing to a mold.

Bottom

1. Since much of the rock below us is molten, it is assumed that the heavier elements—especially iron—would go to the bottom. (Web site)

Interior

1. Earth has a hot, molten interior.
2. After the eruption wanes, the molten interior of the flow typically subsides, leaving a series of "bathtub rings," rather than a true lava flow stratigraphy.
3. Molten lava drained from the interior of hardened channels to form lava tubes.

Atmosphere

1. Vents are openings in the Earth's crust from which molten rock and volcanic gases escape onto the ground or into the atmosphere. (Web site)

Moon

1. When the Moon started to cool a solid crust was formed along its surface, but its molten interior remained displaced in the direction of the Earth. (Web site)
2. Starting about 4.5 billion years ago, the newly formed Moon was in a molten state and was orbiting much closer to the Earth.
3. Together, KREEP and the anorthositic samples have been used to infer that the outer portion of the Moon was once completely molten (see lunar magma ocean). (Web site)

Liquid

1. Here the rock is molten liquid, white hot.
2. If iron ores are heated with carbon to 1420–1470 K, a molten liquid is formed, an alloy of about 96.5% iron and 3.5% carbon.
3. The outer core is molten liquid and surrounds a solid inner core about the size of the moon. (Web site)

Sodium

1. Molten sodium is used as a coolant in some types of nuclear reactors.
2. Phenol is warmed in a dry tube until it is molten, and a small piece of sodium added. (Web site)
3. Sodium was first isolated by Sir Humphry Davy in 1807 by passing an electric current through molten sodium hydroxide. (Web site)

Intense

1. One is contact metamorphism, during which rock is altered by the intense heat of a nearby body of molten rock that has intruded from a greater depth.

Molten Core

1. Below this level the seismic data infers the interior is iron-enriched, although there is insufficient data to determine if the Moon has a molten core. (Web site)
2. Perhaps the moon once had a larger, more molten core.

Core

1. The mantle is the layer of the Earth (or other planet) located between the crust and the molten core. (Web site)
2. The surface of the lake is covered in a layer of cooler lava, floating on the molten core like the skin on milk. (Web site)
3. A piece of cheese is surrounded by raw meat and cooked until it melts, resulting in a molten core of cheese within the patty. (Web site)

Meaning

1. Fluorides have been used in the past to help molten metal flow, hence the name, which derives from Latin verb fluere, meaning to flow. (Web site)

Term

1. Scientists use the term to describe both lava lakes that are molten and those that are partly or completely solidified. (Web site)
2. The term is used to describe both lava lakes that are wholly or partly molten and those that are solidified[ citation needed]. (Web site)
3. The term was then taken into Standard Italian, where it came to mean the rock in both its molten and its solidified states. (Web site)

Streams

1. Lava flows are streams of molten rock that pour or ooze from an erupting vent.
2. Impurities in molten pig iron are burned away with streams of high pressure oxygen to produce steel. (Web site)

Molten Rock

1. Magma: Very hot, molten rock which is formed within the earth by partial melting of the mantle. (Web site)
2. Igneous rocks form when molten rock (magma) originating from deep within the Earth solidifies. (Web site)
3. Igneous rocks result from the cooling of molten rock or magma to create rocks like granites, basalts, and rhyolites. (Web site)

Volcanic

1. Igneous rocks are formed when molten magma cools and are divided into two main categories: plutonic rock and volcanic. (Web site)

Large Amounts

1. They contain large amounts of lava in either molten, partly solidified or completely solidified states. (Web site)
2. Molten lava is a threat to the surrounding area, as are the large amounts of volcanic ash and gas that stratovolcanoes spew.

Iron

1. In the vicinity of the main camp (Auschwitz I) was a large farrier's works, from which the smell of molten iron was naturally not pleasant" (p. (Web site)
2. If thermite is ignited underwater, the molten iron produced will extract oxygen from water and generate hydrogen gas in a single-replacement reaction.
3. Earth has a complex magnetic field whose principal source appears to be the molten iron of the outer core. (Web site)

Furnace

1. A furnace in which air is blown through the molten bath of crude metal or matte for the purpose of oxidizing impurities.
2. High purity copper scrap is directly melted in a furnace and the molten copper is deoxidized and cast into billets, or ingots.

Asphalt

1. Asphalt, Air blown: asphalt produced by blowing air through molten asphalt to raise its softening point and modify other properties.
2. The primer lays dust and improves the adhesion of the molten asphalt to the roof deck.
3. The top layer of asphalt, while still molten is embedded with Ceramic Granules. (Web site)

Thick

1. Molten rock material with abundant silica is thick, slow moving, and form rocks that have lower densities.

Viscosity

1. Such molten material may reach very low temperatures without crystallizing, but its viscosity may become very high. (Web site)

Depth

1. The asthenosphere is approximately 200 km [124 miles] thick and, owing to its depth below the Earth's surface, warm (~ 1400 o C) [2640 o F] but not molten.
2. Magma is molten rock formed and cooled at depth. (Web site)

Depths

1. It flows as hot, molten mass in the depths of the earth.
2. When this happens molten rock or magma pushes up from the depths. (Web site)

Heated

1. The material is heated until molten simply mopped, sprayed or poured onto the roof deck 24. (Web site)
2. With molten aluminum held at 645-degrees C (1193-degrees F), the air could be heated to 1000-deg F prior to expansion.
3. They are also formed when rock is heated up by the intrusion of hot molten rock called magma from the Earth's interior. (Web site)

Water

1. Limu o Pele is formed when water is forced into lava, as when waves wash atop the exposed streams of molten rock, and becomes trapped. (Web site)
2. The first two thirds of Neptune is composed of a mixture of molten rock, water, liquid ammonia and methane.
3. Sodium is a low-density material that floats on water, and in the Downs cell, the molten sodium rises to the top, where it is drawn off.

Underground

1. As the volcano emptied itself of molten rock, an empty chamber was left underground.
2. This molten rock (magma) is less dense than the rock that surrounds it underground.
3. Plutonic rocks forms deep underground when molten rock cools and solidifies very slowly, allowing large crystals to form. (Web site)

Downslope

1. Lava flow: Stream of molten rock that erupts relatively non-explosively from a volcano and moves slowly downslope. (Web site)

Pyroclastic

1. Enormous quantities of pyroclastic, or molten rock composed of pumice, material were released.
2. If part of a lava dome collapses while it is still molten, it can produce pyroclastic flows, one of the most lethal forms of volcanic event.

Bombs

1. Blocks are ejected during the eruption in a solid state, while bombs are ejected during the eruption in a semi-solid, or partial molten, condition.
2. Bombs are pieces of molten lava that are thrown out of the volcano.
3. Bombs are ejected in a molten state, becoming rounded upon solidification, and blocks are erupted as solid fragments. (Web site)

Carbon Dioxide

1. The products are carbon dioxide and molten silicon. (Web site)
2. That movement brings up molten rock, which releases carbon dioxide that seeps into the bottom of Lake Kivu. (Web site)
3. Dangers include molten lava and gas vents that release carbon dioxide so that there is a danger of asphyxiation.

Bubbles

1. Gas bubbles become pressurized and burst at the top of the magma column, producing small explosions and throwing clots of molten lava into the air. (Web site)
2. Others, such as pumice, contain holes where gas bubbles were trapped when the material was still hot and molten.
3. The molten material often contains gas bubbles which freeze into the rock. (Web site)

Float

1. The land masses are hunks of Earth's crust that float on the molten core. (Web site)

Plates

1. The plates are sections of the crust that "float" on the mantle, which is made up of molten rock.
2. Sections of the crust, called plates, push against each other due to forces from the molten interior of the earth. (Web site)
3. Plates at our planet�s surface move because of the intense heat in the Earth�s core that causes molten rock in the mantle layer to move. (Web site)

Crystals

1. Besides molten rock, magma may also contain suspended crystals and gas bubbles. (Web site)
2. Minerals crystallize from molten rock (magma or lava) as crystals grow by the addition of atoms.
3. When magma cools slowly, usually at depths of thousands of feet, crystals grow from the molten liquid, and a coarse-grained rock forms. (Web site)

Melt

1. Within drawing crucible 1 is located a body of molten semiconductor, or melt, 13 which could be for example molten silicon. (Web site)
2. Small streams of molten iron released in the reaction can travel considerable distances and may melt through metal containers, igniting their contents. (Web site)
3. Ingots are manufactured by the freezing of a molten liquid (known as the melt) in a mold. (Web site)

Categories

1. Lava
2. Magma
3. Igneous Rock
4. Mantle
5. Earth's Surface

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