melting point
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the temperature below which a liquid turns into a solid
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A 50-hour-life projection bulb, for instance, is designed to operate only convert below that melting point.
Above this melting point, the viscous liquid will become a free-flowing liquid (see rheological weldability for thermoplastics ).
A given pure compound has only one normal boiling point, if any, and a compound's normal boiling point and melting point can serve as characteristic physical properties for that compound, listed in reference books.
• A low melting point is preferable in order to avoid metastable, monotropic liquid crystalline phases.
A NERVA solid-core design Bimodal Nuclear Thermal Rocket in Low Earth Orbit ( artistic rendering A solid core reactor's performance is ultimately limited by the melting point of the materials used in the reactor cores.
Americium(II) oxide was prepared in minute amounts and has not been characterized in details. citation Americium(III) oxide is a red-brown solid with a melting point of 2205 °C.