I keep seeing it on the discovery channel...all the hot, red lava flowing down a volcano. It looks incredible. I was wondering, if I touch it will it just be really warm and soothing, or will it burn a frickin' hole through my hand?
Also...can one make synthetic magma?
2006-10-10 20:20:28 · 22 answers · asked by reaganomic 1 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Earth Sciences & Geology
Yeah, magma is nice and toasty warm. About 3000 degrees. Yeah, you can make magma. Just melt some rocks.
2006-10-10 20:22:37 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
It's fantastically hot! Jump into a pool of that stuff and you'd be incinerated very quickly, so I wouldn't recommend it. Chances are that if you walked toward a stream of flowing magma [Edit: flowing Lava - I stand corrected. Thanks dude], you wouldn't get close enough to touch it anyway before the sheer heat would drive you back. It looks pretty smart though, don't it?
Synthetic magma... well I suppose it's possible in theory, but I've never heard of anybody trying it.
2006-10-11 03:31:13 · answer #2 · answered by FrozenCamel 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Basalt lava is about 1100 -1200 deg C, so don't get too near!
As for synthetic magma, experimental petrology departments in universities do it all the time. Manchester, Oxford, Edinburg and Sydney are among the leading ones.
They use electrical induction, and confine the various rock oxides in a "bomb" to simulate enormous pressures deep in the earth. The only make tiny quantities though.
2006-10-11 17:19:32 · answer #3 · answered by Paul FB 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Magma is the name given to lava when it's still inside the volcano, it's called lava when it's in contact with air on the outside of the volcano. In answer to your question, magma is extremely hot, and you'd die before you could touch it, but if you wanted to touch it you would have to jump into a volcano to do so.
2006-10-11 07:03:49 · answer #4 · answered by Katri-Mills 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes it can kill. If you was to touch it with your hand you would get burnt to the bone. But and there is a but, say you accidentally touched Magma with you have and withdrew it quick enough you could probably survive with allot of medical assistance.
I suppose that the closest man made equivalent would be when you work in lets say an iron/steel factory where stone is melted to get at the ore content and then its pored into molds!
2006-10-11 08:13:52 · answer #5 · answered by Joolz of Salopia 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Eat a whole bunch of(Green) Jalapenos and(Red) peppers(about 15) With Crawfish, Louisiana style. Add about 12 Coronas w/sal limon, and 10 Taco Bell Tacos with extra hot sauce(Fire brand) on an empty stomach.
In the morning you will make magma.
2006-10-11 03:39:05 · answer #6 · answered by meowzer mix 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
well first of all correct urself magma is the molten form of rock that has a capability to flow with in the earth.and what u see in the discovery channel that is LAVA..means that when ever this molten rock is inside the earth its known as magma...but once it comes out of the earh through volcanic vents its than called as LAVA. AND yes it does kill..since its hot acidic and contain gases such as chlorine,sulphur,and other harmful and toxic gases...
so lava does kills... but magma doesnt kill as it doesnt come out of the earth......:::)
2006-10-11 03:33:45 · answer #7 · answered by hussainalimalik1983 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A frickin' hole? A: you wont get close enough to touch it, the sheer heat would melt your face and B: If you ever could touch it, yourt hand would disappear in a second
2006-10-11 03:55:08 · answer #8 · answered by beth 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It would just melt your hand right off, it doesnt kill intentionally but touching it will cetainly be a very bad idea. Good question though ive always wondered what would happen if someone fell in, like would they just melt away like the end of Indiana Jones
2006-10-11 03:24:23 · answer #9 · answered by poli_b2001 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
For 2 points Yup!
2006-10-11 03:29:56 · answer #10 · answered by puffy 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋