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Turbine blades are extremely sophisticated metal parts, marvels of engineering designed to withstand temperatures within the engine that are higher than the melting point of the metal.
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Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 31 July 2024
Why Wagyu Tastes Different There are two further factors in that fat content: melting point and flavor.
—Wes Siler, Outside Online, 23 July 2024
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.
—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
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Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 31 July 2024
Why Wagyu Tastes Different There are two further factors in that fat content: melting point and flavor.
—Wes Siler, Outside Online, 23 July 2024
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.
—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
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melting point
noun
melt·ing point
ˈmel-tiŋ-ˌ 
: the temperature at which a solid melts
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