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

If the carbon content is over 2 , the metal is called cast iron, because it has a relatively low melting point and is easily cast.

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

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

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.

Today, we are experiencing a low point.

Melting polar ice will cause rising seas to inundate low lying fertile delta regions on which hundreds of millions of people grow their food.

It was critical to operate the gold target very close to its melting point and to make sure that its surface was very clean.

The value of pKw decreases as temperature increases from the melting point of ice to a minimum at c. 250 C, after which it increases up to the critical point of water c. 374 C.

Iron is different from most other materials (including bronze), in that it does not immediately go from a solid to a liquid at its melting point.

Melting Pot or Economic Meltdown

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.

Melting on Top of the World

Melting their insides and their skins .

Bronze is superior to just copper, by being harder, being more resistant to corrosion, and by having a lower melting point (thereby requiring less fuel to melt and cast).

With the American invasion of Iraq in 2003, French American relations reached a low point.

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.

World monetary conditions seem to point to a protracted period of high liquidity and low international interest rates.

She says that the snow and ice have been melting.

The single crystal nickel alloy turbine blades are also hollow, and air is pushed through laser drilled holes in them to cool them because the gas temperature is higher than the melting point of the blades.

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

1900 the U.S. Indian population reached its low point less than 250,000, compared to an estimated eight million in 1492.

With four or more points, the probability is high for LQTS with one point or less, the probability is low.

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

Unemployment is at a cyclical low, and the economy appears to be less volatile than at any point in modern history.

It was a low point in Indo Pakistan relations, and no one in Delhi was prepared to trust Musharraf ever again.

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

In other words, will the elevated asset values caused by low discount rates suddenly reset downward at some point? No one knows.

Those who predict generally low interest rates over the next generation point to rapid growth of productivity and potential output in the world economy.

It had been estimated that every percentage point increase in debt service in low income countries reduced public investment by about 0.2 per cent.

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.

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

It is surrounded by mostly low mountains such as the Sudetes with its part Krkonoše, containing the highest point in the country, the Sněžka at .

In fact, for many Russians, the declaration of Russia s independence in 1990 represents a low point in the country s history, a year of anarchy and disarray.

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