• Question: How hot is lava

    Asked by 352brna47 to Áine, Ciarán, Eoin, Lydia, Victoria on 19 Nov 2014.
    • Photo: Lydia Bach

      Lydia Bach answered on 19 Nov 2014:

      Hey!

      Different types of lava have different temperatures, depending what they made of. For example basalt has a temperature of around 1100 C – that’s Hawaiian lava. Volcanoes tend to have lava that is around 800 C.

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