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magma

/mag-muh/US // ˈmæg mə //UK // (ˈmæɡmə) //

岩浆,熔熔岩浆,熔熔浆,熔熔岩

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n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    plural mag·mas, mag·ma·ta [mag-muh-tuh]. /ˈmæg mə tə/.

    • : Geology. molten material beneath or within the earth's crust, from which igneous rock is formed.
    • : any crude mixture of finely divided mineral or organic matter.
    • : Chemistry, Pharmacology. a paste composed of solid and liquid matter.

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Examples

  • Both are clues that the volcanoes are connected by one big caldera, a massive crater that forms when a very large magma chamber in a volcano explodes and empties.

  • This internal melting created magma which, through a plumbing system, was thrust out as lava onto the crust.

  • Those elements were some of the last to crystalize out of the magma ocean that covered the young moon and can help reveal details of how that process happened.

  • At her experimental petrology lab at Jacobs-NASA Johnson Space Center, she subjects these samples to extreme pressure and temperature in “mini magma chambers” to recreate the conditions under which they formed.

  • They argue some local source of geothermal heat is needed, such as a magma chamber beneath the surface, to maintain a lake.

  • Underneath our feet tectonic plates shift, magma bubbles, water boils, and both regularly erupt.

  • When the volcano blew its top, thousands perished, immolated by fire, boiling magma, and ash.

  • Iron-heavy minerals are believed to have sunk through the magma before floating to the surface in a new form of mountain.

  • Like magma seeping up through geological faults, this emotion can explode in unexpected ways.

  • The magma drove upward, melting its way through the fractured rock of the channels under the western side of the island.

  • Scientists had arrived, too, and they were taking over much of the detail of keeping track of the magma.

  • When the shockwaves get down far enough to crack things open, the gas'll come up, and then steam and ash, and then the magma.

  • An average sugar centrifugal will separate 600 pounds of magma perfectly in three minutes.

  • Next morning the drained magma is put into a strong bag, and squeezed in a press.