molten lead
Smelted heavy element
Molten lead is lead heated past its melting point into liquid form.
The metal melts at a relatively low temperature, making it useful historically for casting type, bullets, and seals.
Molten lead appears in torture imagery and expressions of punishment: They poured molten lead down his throat.
The phrase evokes extreme heat and weight—lead being notably dense even when liquid.
- liquidFree-flowing substance
- white hotHeated to luminescence
- metalHard conductive solid
- heavy metalAggressive amplified rock genre
- smeltingExtracting metal from ore
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- hot thingsfire, flames, lava, magma, coals
- molten substanceslava, magma, liquid metal
- LeadPb, galena, leaded gasoline
- Molten Metalpour, ladle, crucible, lava, incandescence
- heavy liquidsmercury, liquid gold, bromine, heavy water, sulfuric acid
- ancient projectilesarrow, bolt, javelin, spear, crossbow bolt
temperature
molten leadice
Water's solid form
liquid nitrogen · dry ice · ice water · permafrost · glacial ice
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