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Igneous material at lab's melted (6)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

basalt

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'igneous material' is the definition.
'basalt' can be an answer for 'material' (basalt is a kind of material). I'm not sure about the 'igneous' bit.

'at lab's melted' is the wordplay.
'melted' indicates an anagram.
'at'+'labs'='atlabs'
'atlabs' with letters rearranged gives 'BASALT'.

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(Other definitions for basalt that I've seen before include "Dark fine-grained volcanic rock" , "Common volcanic rock" , "Rock containing olivine" , "rock from 2 [VOLCANO]" , "Dark rock of volcanic origin" .)

I've seen this clue in The Independent.
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