A Bunsen burner, named after Robert Bunsen, is a kind of gas burner used as laboratory equipment; it produces a single open gas flame, and is used for heating, sterilization, and combustion. The gas can be natural gas (which is mainly methane) or a liquefied petroleum gas, such as propane, butane, or a mixture.

Aside from the thermal damage to your body, you cannot breathe that kind of superheated air. It would take just a very few seconds for that heat to swell your airway shut and to literally boil your brain. You wouldn’t suffer long, but it might feel like a long time.

Dipping your hand into molten rock won’t kill you instantly, but it will give you severe, painful burns — “the kind that destroy nerve endings and boil subcutaneous fat,” says David Damby, a research chemist at the USGS Volcano Science Center, in an email to The Verge. Now, falling into lava is another story.

In 2002, a firefighter survived a fall of more than 100 feet into a lava tube in Hawaii’s Fern Forest while searching for three lost pig hunters in the forest, according to the Honolulu Star-Bulletin. The hole was about five to eight feet wide, obscured by a fern, the paper reported.

Soldier survives 70-foot fall into active Hawaiia’s Kilauea volcano. A 32-year-old soldier attempting to get a better view inside of Hawaii’s Kilauea volcano fell in Wednesday night, authorities said. He was seriously injured, but survived after falling 70 feet into the volcano’s crater.

Some will have a touch of sulfur, others will have clay like flavors if weathered. Freshly cooled lava can have smell and taste from roasted trees and other organics that it burned up. Consider that Hawaiian lava cooled in the ocean might taste salty unless the salt was washed away with rain water.

In addition to regular menu items like café latte, cakes and sandwiches you can order edible lava at Bræðraborg Café in the town of Ísafjörður in the Westfjords. The pieces look exactly like lava, and they even feel like lava in your hand, so people don’t believe they are actually edible until they bite into them!”

While exploring an active volcano, Dante Lopardo decided to urinate on some molten rock, which has a temperature of about 700°C. As seen in the video Lopardo took, the pee instantly vaporizes as it hits the liquid rock and the lava sizzles. It also leaves something of a charred black mark after sizzling off.

Volcanic eruptions

The heat boils seawater dry — not just boiling away the water, but also heating salt molecules the boiled water leaves behind, like magnesium chloride.

Overall there are 43 volcanoes with continuing eruptions as of the Stop Dates indicated, and as reported through the last data update (24 June 2021), sorted with the most recently started eruption at the top.

Yellowstone supervolcano

Kilauea

Let’s take a look at the world’s most active volcanoes and where these volcanoes are located.

• Mauna Loa – Hawaii. Source: R.W. Decker/Wikimedia Commons.
• Eyjafjallajokull – Iceland.
• Mount Vesuvius – Italy.
• Mount Nyiragongo – Congo.
• Taal Volcano – Philippines.
• Mount Merapi – Indonesia.
• Galeras – Colombia.
• Sakurajima – Japan.

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