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The temperature where a solid admits defeat and becomes a liquid.
means The specific temperature at which a solid, given enough heat, turns into a liquid.
from Straightforward scientific compound English: 'melt' (from Old English 'meltan,' meaning to become liquid through heat, itself from a very old Germanic root also tied to 'malt') joined with 'point' in its sense of a precise, measurable location on a scale. The phrase itself emerged alongside the development of thermometry and chemistry as sciences, once people needed exact, repeatable numbers to describe when substances change state rather than just vague words like 'hot enough.'
- pressure matters
- squeeze ice hard enough, it melts below zero
- tungsten flex
- holds solid form until 3,422 degrees celsius
- same as freezing
- just approached from the opposite emotional direction
- helium rebel
- never fully solidifies without extreme added pressure