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Needless to say, at 19,000 Kelvin, the solid gold sample blew past that boundary, heating up to more than 14 times its melting point, which is about 1,300 Kelvin.
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Margherita Bassi, Smithsonian Magazine, 28 July 2025
This electrolyte has a melting point of around 157 ºC, and remains solid over a large spectrum of room temperatures.
—IEEE Spectrum, 15 Apr. 2022
That material starts out as a filament which is heated to the melting point, then extruded out of a print nozzle to build up the robot's body in successive layers.
—Ben Coxworth
may 28, New Atlas, 28 May 2025
While Robert Zubrin sketched out blueprints to construct a web of domes using super-strength Kevlar, Wordsworth made the remarkable discovery that hemispheres built of silica aerogel would heat up the interior by 50 degrees Kelvin, above the melting point of frozen H2O along the Martian equator.
—Kevin Holden Platt, Forbes.com, 24 May 2025
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Margherita Bassi, Smithsonian Magazine, 28 July 2025
This electrolyte has a melting point of around 157 ºC, and remains solid over a large spectrum of room temperatures.
—IEEE Spectrum, 15 Apr. 2022
That material starts out as a filament which is heated to the melting point, then extruded out of a print nozzle to build up the robot's body in successive layers.
—Ben Coxworth
may 28, New Atlas, 28 May 2025
While Robert Zubrin sketched out blueprints to construct a web of domes using super-strength Kevlar, Wordsworth made the remarkable discovery that hemispheres built of silica aerogel would heat up the interior by 50 degrees Kelvin, above the melting point of frozen H2O along the Martian equator.
—Kevin Holden Platt, Forbes.com, 24 May 2025
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“Melting point.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/melting%20point. Accessed 5 Aug. 2025.
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melting point
noun
melt·ing point
ˈmel-tiŋ-ˌ 
: the temperature at which a solid melts
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