Difference between Molten and Liquid

What is the difference between Molten and Liquid?

Molten as an adjective is melted. while Liquid as an adjective is flowing freely like water; fluid; not solid and not gaseous; composed of particles that move freely among each other on the slightest pressure.

Molten

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: Melted. made from molten substance glowing red-hot

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To change (or to be changed) from a solid state to a liquid state, usually by a gradual heat.

Liquid

Part of speech: noun

Definition: A substance that is flowing, and keeping no shape, such as water; a substance of which the molecules, while not tending to separate from one another like those of a gas, readily change their relative position, and which therefore retains no definite shape, except that determined by the containing receptacle; an inelastic fluid.An l or r sound.

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: Flowing freely like water; fluid; not solid and not gaseous; composed of particles that move freely among each other on the slightest pressure.Of an asset, easily sold or disposed of without losing value.Of a market, having sufficient trading activity to make buying or selling easy.

Example sentence: It is the city of mirrors, the city of mirages, at once solid and liquid, at once air and stone.

We hope you now know whether to use Molten or Liquid in your sentence.

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