seige wrote:As for the metals, we can only assume that the molten metal being used was the same metal used to make the Terminators, ergo, it means that the melting temperature of the T800 would be the same as the molten metal.
At the extreme risk of being the devil's advocate's bore...
If you introduce a hot substance to a hotter substance they attempt equilibrium. This means that the hotter substance will reduce in temperature, while the cooler one will become hotter - by the same amount.
Now I've not seen the film so I don't know the details of the scenario of which you speak but... if molten metal was poured onto cold metal then there's no guarantee that the cold metal would melt. It would become very hot, probably (but not necessarily) by the same degree as the molten metal would cool. This is similar to when you pour liquid nitrogen over your hand. It will evapourate rather than turn you into the T1000 from Terminator 2.
However, if you dunked a cold robot into a vast vat of liquid steel/iron/whatever, then the mass of the hot fluid would ensure that the cold metal would melt (assuming that it had the same melting point as the fluid in the vat) - in the same way as Arni bot 'dies' in T2. And in the same way, if you plunged your hand into a pot of liquid nitrogen then you would suffer traumatic injuries very much (but not quite) along the lines of the T1000 does etc...
I'll stop now
