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For example, a planet a little bit warmer than Earth—perhaps orbiting a hotter star or closer to a cooler star—could wind up with a runaway greenhouse effect that boils its oceans and eventually heats its desiccated surface to the melting point of lead.
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Phil Plait, Scientific American, 7 Feb. 2024
Tungsten has a higher melting point than carbon, and according to Korea’s National Research Council of Science and Technology, the new diverter improves the reactor’s heat flux limit two-fold.
—Isaac Schultz / Gizmodo, Quartz, 6 May 2024
And while the nightside is a balmier 1,100 degrees Fahrenheit, that’s still only about 120 degrees short of the melting point for aluminum.
—Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 1 May 2024
Each has its own properties and costs and each has a different melting point, meaning your printer needs to support a specific kind of filament to use it.
—Jade Chung-Lee, PCMAG, 31 Jan. 2024
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Phil Plait, Scientific American, 7 Feb. 2024
Tungsten has a higher melting point than carbon, and according to Korea’s National Research Council of Science and Technology, the new diverter improves the reactor’s heat flux limit two-fold.
—Isaac Schultz / Gizmodo, Quartz, 6 May 2024
And while the nightside is a balmier 1,100 degrees Fahrenheit, that’s still only about 120 degrees short of the melting point for aluminum.
—Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 1 May 2024
Each has its own properties and costs and each has a different melting point, meaning your printer needs to support a specific kind of filament to use it.
—Jade Chung-Lee, PCMAG, 31 Jan. 2024
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melting point
noun
melt·ing point
ˈmel-tiŋ-ˌ 
: the temperature at which a solid melts
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