The Ming emperors made it their capital in 1421 and it remained China's capital till 1912 when the Manchu Empire fell and SunYat Sen turned China into a republic.
Everybody always uses it to mean some kind of liquid that's hot and smoking,
like glowing smoking molten lava creeping down the sides of a volcano, or red
hot molten steel pouring out of the furnace in a steel mill in a shower of sparks.
But I think technically it just means melted ... water is molten ice.
<span>If you see a very tall, rock feature that looks like a jagged, rectangular block sticking out of the ground, you're probably observing a volcanic neck. Also known as a lava neck or volcanic plug, a volcanic neck is formed when magma solidifies within a vent of an active volcano. This can harness great amounts of pressures which could lead to an explosive eruption.</span>
I'd say counties because there are way more of them
Global warming which is not a geological process but something humans have caused