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real lava: more complex than you think.


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if you think that lava was just about a high viscosity fluid, like i did, well... im kinda glad that we were wrong....

real lava is a very complicated fluid, with a lot of strange behavior and forms, a lot of bubbles and... well look...

http://vimeo.com/19260895#

Cool. But they are pouring the lava onto ice, so that might account for the different behaviour (bubbles). The flow out of the spout seems very laminar.

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Sure lava has bubbles, but most of those that you see there are from the water vapor form the ice.

*edit

Look for underwater lava, and you'll see even more bizarre behavior.

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