It began to flatten out, to melt into surrounding space, to attach itself to otherness.
Or plunge into the 200-foot-long pool, which appears to melt into the waters of the lake beyond.
When depression sets in, our problems seem to melt into each other until we are faced with one hellish soup of difficulty.
In 1992, a team bankrolled by Tennessee businessman Roy Shoffner and led by Bob Cardin excavated the plane by using hot water to melt a shaft into the ice, hoisting the plane out piece by piece.
When building on permafrost in northern Quebec, non-profit group Archimede Systems had to take into account the melt-and-freeze cycles of the seasons, the need to insulate heat, prevent condensation, and the necessity to keep the home from melting into the icy ground during a thaw.
Accelerators can now be cranked up to energy levels where these forces melt into one another.
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The rebels, split by internal rifts, tend to hit hard and then melt back into the bush or across Burundi's borders.
In times gone by the premises were occupied by local goldsmiths, who used the fireplace to melt precious metallic nuggets before thwacking them into shape on an anvil that now hangs from the cellar ceiling.
Bigger operators don't have the luxury of halting production: Many of the newer oil sands projects are not the typical open strip mines, rather they inject steam into the ground to slowly melt the bitumen out of the sands.
One sterling idea was to buy silver riyal coins and melt them down into ingots.
This warming is causing glaciers and ice shelves to melt, releasing large volumes of fresh water into the oceans which not only raises sea level, but also influences regional climate change.
They will soon bioengineer bacteria to melt oil out of tar sands, turn grass into diesel fuel and scavenge natural resources of every kind out of low-grade, thinly dispersed deposits.
And while amorphous silicon can be turned into crystalline silicon by heating it, the high temperature required causes plastic to melt.
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