Silicon carbide, SiC (carborundum) is a hard, high melting solid and a well known abrasive.

A high melting point results from a high heat of fusion, a low entropy of fusion, or a combination of both.

Melting Pot or Economic Meltdown

Melting on Top of the World

Melting their insides and their skins .

Anyway, last year, I heard about the Himalayas and the melting of the and the melting of the glaciers because of climate change.

The melting of arctic ice is one example.

The ingredients of the melting pot are separating.

And this melting, it appears, has already begun.

High concentrations of greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide (CO2) must build up in the atmosphere to overcome the effect of the high reflectivity (albedo) of ice and allow temperatures to rise sufficiently to begin melting.

There will be climbers hanging banners high in the Himalayas, where the glaciers are melting, and scuba divers at Australia s Great Barrier Reef, which is threatened by climate change.

Warm and humid air will increase melting of ice in low regions at the edges of the ice sheets while boosting snowfall over cold high regions in the interior.

She says that the snow and ice have been melting.

The surface effects of nanoparticles also reduces the incipient melting temperature.

Melting is only possible in an inert atmosphere or in a vacuum.

The melting point of iron is much higher than that of bronze.

It was formed by glacial melting at the end of the Ice Age.

Examples of other effects include diminishing freshwater supply in many regions, due to extended droughts and as a result of the melting of high altitude glaciers and the decrease in snow cover in mountain areas.

For example, melting point (MP) analysis can assist in identification of many organic compounds.

The bottom line is that the boundaries, because of the Internet plus cellphone, are melting.

Campaigners for carbon emission reductions regularly highlight the melting snow and ice of Mount Kilimanjaro.

Today, a far greater Arctic tragedy is unfolding the Arctic sea ice cap is melting.

The melting causes the sea level to rise, whereas the snow causes it to fall.

Rising temperatures have lengthened the freeze free season in many regions, and glaciers are melting.

But the pure enantiomer can have a higher or lower melting point than the compound.

The noble gases have weak interatomic force, and consequently have very low melting and boiling points.

The melting point of aluminium, , is typically reached within minutes of the start of a fire.

A variation on this theme is the use of flux methods, where a salt of relatively low melting point is added to the mixture to act as a high temperature solvent in which the desired reaction can take place.

Melting glaciers in the Himalayas could potentially lead to water shortages for hundreds of millions of people.

If the Arctic Ocean becomes ice free in summer, the melting and the snowfall will probably increase sharply.

Melting ice caps, rising sea levels and extreme weather patterns aren't the only potential consequences of climate change.

Rather than melting, at the peritectic decomposition temperature, the compound decomposes into another solid compound and a liquid.

It should also be noted that an atmospheric weather pattern known as a block, a persistent area of high pressure that may have led to record melting in Greenland, was most likely the reason that Sandy moved inland rather than out to sea.

But few saw, for instance, the Artic ice cap melting as rapidly as now seems to be the case.

If America is a melting pot, then India is a thali , a selection of sumptuous dishes in different bowls.

Mountain rivers, fed by either the melting snow or the monsoon rains, empty into the Brahmaputra River in India.

For, although the US has drawn strength from the ideal of a melting pot and President Barack Obama s cabinet does represent a new high water mark for diversity Americans have often shown a xenophobic distrust of immigrants who have drawn too close to power.

They know their public, a self styled melting pot of peoples, would rather fight dictators than brothers and cousins abroad.

Just as the cooling of water, which leads to ice, is termed freezing, the warming of ice leads to melting.

Power generation is also a potential sector that is starting to be developed due to Ecuador's high water potential in various sectors of the country the development of products based on the melting or glass materials, production and agro processed foods, and pharmaceutical production, among others.

When United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki moon recently visited Antarctica, he was impressed by the melting ice he saw there.

One hint was that Russian buyers paid the big money, at the very moment that Russia s banking system was melting down.

One can get rid of bloom by retempering the chocolate or using it for any use that requires melting the chocolate.

To be sure, managing a melting pot is not easy, and many of America's social problems are related to difficult race relations.

Snow pack in the mountains is melting earlier in the season, so that river water is less available during summer growing seasons.