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lava

noun as in volcano matter

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Some volcanoes, including Mount St. Helens in Washington state and Quizapu in Chile, have occasionally released slow, gentle lava flows even when their magma was rich in gas and considered highly explosive.

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“The crackle in our cells and between each other was already there. It was like lava, something that was moving but had solidness around it.”

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What Enceladus does is akin to a volcano hurling lava into space -- except the ejecta are plumes of water vapor and ice.

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Kilauea, on Hawaii's Big Island, is spewing large columns of lava into the air.

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It’s peak people watching and there happens to also be mozzarella sticks, lava cake, margaritas and the salsa trio with chips.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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