Talk:Melting

Low importance

Why is melting of "Low" importance.. why is this article not in chemistry? I think in chemistry it is AT least a mid importance, just as it should be in physics.. Anyways, I'm adding chemistry tag as medium, but I won't change the physics importance for now. IlyaV (talk) 18:49, 29 April 2010 (UTC)

Dubious tag - Melting and freezing point same temperature?

This line: "The melting point and freezing point are usually the same temperature" needs clarification, improving, and revising. (forgot to add my signature on 18:15, 9 January 2007) -- 5Q5 18:16, 29 April 2007 (UTC)

Um, essentially there is a point which is a phase transition between liquid and solid. When you go through transition from solid to liquid it's called "melting", when you go through the SAME transition point from liquid to solid it's called "freezing". As such, the unique thing is the phase transition temperature, and the freezing/melting temperatures are equal to it. IlyaV (talk)

"Melt"

I think this article should be renamed 'Melt'. Mike Simpson 06:31, 24 Jun 2004 (UTC)

but melt is an article on a band of middle schoolers.

what? yur crazy

"Molten"

"Molten" redirects here but wouldn't it better redirect to liquid, from a semantic point of view? Nurg 08:07, 14 April 2006 (UTC)

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Wrong

this article is wrong. substance may melt at constant

Vandalism?

Is the opening line in this article a vandal's joke: "In physics, cheese is the process of heating a solid..." —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 5Q5 (talk • contribs) 14:44, 13 March 2007 (UTC).

Need References

I edited the article a little to make it more accurate. If anyone has any revisions or references, they'd be greatly appreciated. It's not great, but it's a start. However, we might want to merge this article with the melting point one. Torris 20:16, 12 July 2007 (UTC)

incomplete sentence

"From a thermodynamics point of view, at the melting point the change in Gibbs free energy (ΔG) of the material is zero, but the enthalpy (H) and the . Melting" ( Martin | talk • contribs 02:19, 10 April 2011 (UTC))

No self-advertising, please

see my message at User talk:Ojovan#No self-advertising, please. -- Marie Poise (talk) 21:08, 23 May 2011 (UTC)

Heat transfer

Added lede to heat transfer, here. Prokaryotes (talk) 16:59, 5 April 2014 (UTC)

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Are melting and fusion same??

... 2403:D4C0:FFFF:1236:7228:2D06:5066:4E85 (talk) 14:50, 5 February 2025 (UTC)

Yes melting or fusion both are same.... 2403:D4C0:FFFF:1236:7228:2D06:5066:4E85 (talk) 14:51, 5 February 2025 (UTC)

Gold can be heated to 14 times its melting point without melting

Gold can be heated to 14 times its melting point without melting, news report at New Scientist, 23 July 2025.

The study has been published in Nature: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-09253-y "Superheating gold beyond the predicted entropy catastrophe threshold" Nature volume 643, pages 950–954 (2025). Published 23 July 2025. Open-access paper https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-025-09253-y

Thomas White at the University of Nevada, Reno, the senior author, says the true limit of superheating remains an open question. How hot can you make something before it melts? Interesting, path-breaking work. Pete Tillman (talk) 23:04, 24 July 2025 (UTC)