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Moment Of Um

What is lava made of?

Moment Of Um

Lemonada Media

Kids & Family, Education For Kids

4.41.5K Ratings

🗓️ 16 September 2024

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Summary

Lava is the red-hot gloop that comes pouring out of an erupting volcano. But what is it made out of? Some sort of supercharged Silly Putty? Volcano guts? Super-spicy habanero sauce? We asked geoscience grad student Kelsey Woody to help us find the answer. Got a real scorcher of a question? Send it to us at BrainsOn.org/contact, we’d LAVA to find the answer for you. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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0:00.0

From the brains behind brains on, this is moment of um.

0:06.8

Answering those questions that make you go, um, um, um, moment of um, um, moment of Um, um, um, comes to you from APM Studios. I'm Braxton Bramblebush, the third.

0:31.7

Um.

0:33.6

Oh, hello. It's me, Braxton Bramblebush, the third. I love to judge books by their cover.

0:40.6

But not just books, I'll judge anything by how it looks on the outside. Because the outside

0:45.3

tells you all you need to know. My opinions are always very correct and very useful to society.

0:52.8

Just watch me judge this thing.

0:54.9

Peach skin?

0:56.3

Very fuzzy.

0:57.4

Clearly the fruit inside is hairy and icky.

1:00.0

No thanks.

1:01.5

Two out of ten stars.

1:06.3

Or how about turtle shells?

1:08.7

Hard, plate-like surface.

1:11.1

Inside there must be a hard-as-nails creature. Very cool.

1:14.6

Seven out of ten stars.

1:18.0

But I digress. I'm having a total dilemma.

1:21.6

I've been asked to have an opinion about volcanoes.

1:25.0

But sometimes volcanoes erupt, and then their outsides are covered in lava, which is their

1:30.7

insides. So like, in this case, the insides become the outsides. How do I brashly and swiftly judge that?

1:39.0

I need the deeds on lava, so I can have a wildly popular and absolutely correct opinion about it.

1:44.7

And Josh wants to know, too, what is lava made of?

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