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What temperature is molten metal?

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11y ago
Updated: 8/20/2019

It depends on the metal. As an example Mercury (Hg) is liquid or molten at room temperature. Gallium becomes molten at just slightly above room temperature. Tungsten on the other hand has a very high melting temperature.

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