Sentence examples for melt through the from inspiring English sources

The increases were small, not large enough to melt through the structure, but nonetheless unusual.

Spoon into a bowl, chop up the butter, then leave this to melt through the chocolate.

The idea is to drill through the ice with hot water and then deploy the probe, which would melt through the last bit of ice to retrieve samples.

The next question is whether the hot cores will actually melt through the containers, spreading the radioactive materials, shooting them into the ground.

Swiss sculptor Urs Fischer replicated Giambologna's Rape of the Sabines (c. 1580) in candle wax, which was to melt through the duration of the fair.

Fuel that had already melted into a heap at the bottom of the reactor could melt through the steel pressure vessel and react with the concrete below, releasing vapors carrying highly radioactive materials such as strontium and technetium.

Arctic sea ice follows an annual cycle of melting through the warm summer months and refreezing in the winter.

The biggest is the fact that the company does not know the exact condition of the fuel within the No. 1 and No. 3 reactors, whose cores appear to have melted through the inner containment vessels.

Of the six reactors, No. 1 needed the most urgent help: the uranium was melting through the fuel rods, and when the damaged rods mixed with steam they gave off hydrogen, which is highly combustible.

The agency's statement was issued after Representative Edward J. Markey, Democrat of Massachusetts, told a House hearing on Wednesday morning that the commission had told him that the core had melted through the vessel.

Critics, however, immediately challenged that statement, saying it was impossible to call the reactors stable when their fuel had melted through the inner containment vessels, and appeared to be attached to the concrete bottom of outer containment vessels.