Sentence examples for partly molten from inspiring English sources

igneous rock -- Any rock solidified from molten or partly molten material.

The coatings microstructure results from a rapid quenching of molten or partly molten particles that impact the surface at high velocity.

University of Alaska geophysicists note a region where sound waves travel more slowly than normal, a characteristic of partly molten rock.

Bomb, in volcanism, unconsolidated volcanic material that has a diameter greater than 64 mm (2.5 inches) and forms from clots of wholly or partly molten lava ejected during a volcanic eruption, partly solidifying during flight.

They know the earth has three layers: its dense core, its partly molten mantle and its crust, broken into 16 major tectonic plates, moving almost imperceptibly, a few inches a year.

So scientists knew something was happening in the vast plumbing system of partly molten rock, or magma, that underlies the region and causes slow but near-constant ground movement.

Magma, molten or partially molten rock from which igneous rocks form.

The Magma Dynamics Lab uses the tools of experimental petrology to investigate magmas (partly or wholly molten rock) from their sources deep in Earth's crust or upper mantle, through their ascent and eventual emplacement as granitic intrusions or eruption as lava or tephra (volcanic ash).

It must also have a surface and space to move therefore sloshing can occur in partly-filled containers like molten rock in an open volcanic conduit leading to the surface.

Not only is there apparently a small molten core, but a large layer of partly melted rock around it.

In industrial processes, cell feeds consist of various molten salts containing anhydrous (essentially water-free) magnesium chloride, partly dehydrated magnesium chloride, or anhydrous carnallite.