semi-molten

Subvolcanic rocks can remain semi-molten and hot for hundreds or thousands of years.

Its appearance resembles semi-molten tar - a thick dark brown paste.

Once the joining surfaces reach a semi-molten state, the spinning component is stopped abruptly.

The bits of semi-molten brickwork were more molten than usual.

But between her and it was a deep channel, as if the mountain had sunk down in the semi-molten floor eons ago, making a depression.

Either mountain building or upheavals of semi-molten rock inside the earth had periodically made the earth unstable, he decided.

The whole surface was semi-molten rock.

Plumes of semi-molten rock that had been thought to originate deep within the earth may occur at relatively shallow depths.

The two small inner worlds were semi-molten, the outer three impossible because of poisonous atmosphere, gravitation, or cold.

Chunks of solid or semi-molten rock slammed against the hull, knocking off wings and control-surfaces.

The sharp energy blasts came toward us at a low angle and ploughed up semi-molten furrows in the sandy ground.

When both arms were free, the Queen used her claws to shred the semi-molten machine that had enslaved her for so long.

Individual lapilli or pieces of semi-molten lava within the flow were flattened by the weight of deposits above them.

The heat of the newly deposited volcanic pile tends to cause the semi-molten material to flatten out as they become welded.

Firing is of great important because the chemical recombinations taking place in the semi-molten state must be complete or the cement will be unsound.

The speedster shot into the air and dropped down until she rested upon the tops of opposite walls; walls still glowing, semi-molten.

Bomb: Fragment of molten or semi-molten rock, 2 1/2 inches to many feet in diameter, which is blown out during an eruption.

The semi-molten surfaces are pressed together by the welding pressure that creates a fusion bond, resulting in a uniformly welded structure.

This rock is a rhyolitic lapilli-tuff in which the individual pieces of semi-molten lava were flattened under the weight of deposits above them.

Using computer simulators, they were able to determine the shape and size of the two piles, and identify "blobs" of semi-molten rock on their edges.

Tubular lava stalactites When the roof of a lava tube is cooling, a skin will form that traps semi-molten material inside.

A low density volcanic rock produced by the eruption of dense clouds of semi-molten volcanic gases and ash.

Unlike an armor-killing shaped charge, the EFP warhead did not turn into a plasma jet, but remained semi-molten.

When fired, the semi-molten copper disks struck with such violence that casualties tended to be higher and more gruesome than in other IED attacks.

DAZED, his shaken senses reeling, Newton perceived across the gulf the tiny semi-molten ball of Vulcan.