adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
melting point
melting pot
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New York has always been a great melting pot.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
ice
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The sun must only be a rare visitor to this mysterious landscape where spring flowers push through the slowly melting ice .
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Surface waters in contact with melting ice tend to be very thinly populated with zooplankton.
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The air was filled with sublime music and the sound of burning wood was like the soft crackle of melting ice .
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Like melting ice , it dazzled the eye.
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Many years ago, before people had freezers, they made ice cream by using melting ice to cool the mixture.
point
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The main difference between the two is the melting point of the solder.
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This shows the effect of pressure on the melting point of ice.
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It shows that as pressure increases the melting point decreases slightly.
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Most pure solids have characteristic sharp melting points .
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This fact can be used to determine the identity of unknown organic compounds by the method of mixed melting points .
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What is the melting point of melamine?
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The unknown compound is matched with a known compound with the same melting point .
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The high melting point of carbon may also be significant.
pot
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She learnt that these plates did not come up to the manufacturer's high standards and would go back into the melting pot .
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The remaining bare shell is then cut up and sent off to its grave in the industry's melting pot .
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But again they are an ancient group with ancestors back in the Carboniferous forest, a melting pot for plant evolution.
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Magic and medicine were often in the same melting pot .
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The Copperbelt has been a political melting pot for years.
snow
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The Great River swept sluggishly through meads that were aflame with buttercups and dotted with the last patches of melting snow .
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Below us sparkled the Garbh Uisge, bouncing noisily down from the melting snows over jumbled slabs.
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The roof itself was holed in places, and melting snow dripped to the floor and spread in muddy puddles.
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On the night of 16 March, waters from melting snow began to burst the flood-banks in the Fens.
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Bottom right: melting snow from the peaks fuels the rapids.
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Usually we are melting snow or ice so we don't bother, but this trip could see us near stagnant water.
temperature
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For practical purposes T m is taken to be the melting temperature of the undiluted polymer irrespective of the crystalline content.
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This allows the onset of molecular motion in amorphous polymers to take place at temperatures below the melting temperature of such crystallites.
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Any substance, which can be cooled to a sufficient degree below its melting temperature without crystallizing, will form a glass.
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These samples might then exhibit almost perfect first order phase changes at the melting temperature .
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The effect of branching is to decrease the percentage crystallinity, broaden the melting range, and reduce the average melting temperature .
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Any interaction between chains in the crystal lattice will help to hold the structure together more firmly and raise the melting temperature .
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
boiling point/freezing point/melting point etc
in the melting pot
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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No doubt they had all felt this melting ecstasy.