“the destruction and disappearance of this old earth (II Pet. 3: 10-13 [Gr. for “melt” is “liquefy”],”
http://www.fixedearth.com/preterit.html  

While some pagan Greek writer somewhere and at some time might have used the word to mean "liquefy," more relevant is the usage of the word in the Bible.

Is 2 Peter 3 talking about the end of the Temple Age, the old world of the Old Covenant (the preterist view), or is the passage describing the nuclear destruction of physical matter (the futurist view [since it obviously hasn't happened already])?

The writer above would mislead a neophyte into believing that the real meaning of the Greek word has been obscured by traditional translations, and that the futurist view is somehow required by the Greek, or that the preterist view is somehow ruled out by the Greek.

But in fact, the context and other similar usage of the Greek words show that legal norms and covenantal relationships are being discussed in the verse, not the nuclear annihilation of physical matter.

1. any first thing, from which the others belonging to some series or composite whole take their rise, an element, first principal
   1. the letters of the alphabet as the elements of speech, not however the written characters, but the spoken sounds
   2. the elements from which all things have come, the material causes of the universe
   3. the heavenly bodies, either as parts of the heavens or (as others think) because in them the elements of man, life and destiny were supposed to reside
   4. the elements, rudiments, primary and fundamental principles of any art, science, or discipline
      1. i.e. of mathematics, Euclid's geometry

1. to loose any person (or thing) tied or fastened
   1. bandages of the feet, the shoes,
   2. of a husband and wife joined together by the bond of matrimony
   3. of a single man, whether he has already had a wife or has not yet married
2. to loose one bound, i.e. to unbind, release from bonds, set free
   1. of one bound up (swathed in bandages)
   2. bound with chains (a prisoner), discharge from prison, let go
3. to loosen, undo, dissolve, anything bound, tied, or compacted together
   1. an assembly, i.e. to dismiss, break up
   2. laws, as having a binding force, are likened to bonds
   3. to annul, subvert
   4. to do away with, to deprive of authority, whether by precept or act
   5. to declare unlawful
   6. to loose what is compacted or built together, to break up, demolish, destroy
   7. to dissolve something coherent into parts, to destroy
   8. metaph., to overthrow, to do away with

Ga 4:3 - [In Context|Read Chapter|Original Greek]

Even so we, when we were children, were in bondage under the elements of the world:

Mt 5:19 - [In Context|Read Chapter|Original Greek]

Whosoever therefore shall break one of these least commandments, and shall teach men so, he shall be called the least in the kingdom of heaven: but whosoever shall do and teach them, the same shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven.

Ga 4:9 - [In Context|Read Chapter|Original Greek]

But now, after that ye have known God, or rather are known of God, how turn ye again to the weak and beggarly elements, whereunto ye desire again to be in bondage?

Joh 2:19 - [In Context|Read Chapter|Original Greek]

Jesus answered and said unto them, Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up.

Col 2:8 - [In Context|Read Chapter|Original Greek]

Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ.

Joh 5:18 - [In Context|Read Chapter|Original Greek]

Therefore the Jews sought the more to kill him, because he not only had broken the sabbath, but said also that God was his Father, making himself equal with God.

Col 2:20 - [In Context|Read Chapter|Original Greek]

Wherefore if ye be dead with Christ from the rudiments of the world, why, as though living in the world, are ye subject to ordinances,

Joh 7:23 - [In Context|Read Chapter|Original Greek]

If a man on the sabbath day receive circumcision, that the law of Moses should not be broken; are ye angry at me, because I have made a man every whit whole on the sabbath day?

Heb 5:12 - [In Context|Read Chapter|Original Greek]

For when for the time ye ought to be teachers, ye have need that one teach you again which be the elementary principles of the oracles of God; and are become such as have need of milk, and not of strong meat.

Joh 10:35 - [In Context|Read Chapter|Original Greek]

If he called them gods, unto whom the word of God came, and the scripture cannot be broken;

2Pe 3:10 - [In Context|Read Chapter|Original Greek]

But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up.

Ac 2:24 - [In Context|Read Chapter|Original Greek]

Whom God hath raised up, having loosed the pains of death: because it was not possible that he should be holden of it.

2Pe 3:12 - [In Context|Read Chapter|Original Greek]

Looking for and hasting unto the coming of the day of God, wherein the heavens being on fire shall be dissolved, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat?

1Co 7:27 - [In Context|Read Chapter|Original Greek]

Art thou bound unto a wife? seek not to be loosed. Art thou loosed from a wife? seek not a wife.

Eph 2:14 - [In Context|Read Chapter|Original Greek]

For he is our peace, who hath made both one, and hath broken down the middle wall of partition between us;

1Jo 3:8 - [In Context|Read Chapter|Original Greek]

He that committeth sin is of the devil; for the devil sinneth from the beginning. For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that he might destroy the works of the devil.