What will happen if you fall in Lava?

What will happen if you fall in a lake of boiling rocks coming from down the hell beneath the earth's crust with immense pressure and explosions spreading over hundreds of meters and sometimes even several kilometers, what would happen if you fall in lava? Can you make a dive in it? If I say can you actually sink in lava?

At first, it seems a much easier question to say yes, Hmm 'snow lion' but it's not your fault, in so many movies that we see having a lava scene in them a person falls in a bit of Lava he slowly melts and disappears in Lava. 

But in reality, this isn't a case instead of sinking you will actually float like a paper boat on the water, sounds silly but it's true it's our misconception that Lava is a fluid just like other fluids(such as water) but exactly it's made up of molten rocks and metals and it is extremely dense and super hot. 

Comparing lava with other Liquids...

 

There are some key physical properties of lava or any other liquid through which we can differentiate Lava from any other liquid. Let's compare water with Lava: The density of water is 1000 kg/m³ and that of lava is 3100 kg/m³. 

If I compare their viscosity water is having the viscosity of 0.00089 pascals whereas the viscosity of Lava is about 100 to 1000 Pascal depending upon the composition of Lava of different places. 

Now if you through something in a liquid having less viscosity as compared to other liquids it will get out way faster than a high viscosity liquid. Density also plays an important role in how quickly you will sink compared to your own density. So, when we compare the properties of Lava and water, Lava is 3.1 times denser than water and nearly 1 lakh to 1.1 million times more viscous than water. 

What about the Human body 

 

The average density of a human body is 985 kg/m³ after inhalation of maximum in lungs it changes to 945kg/m³ which is slightly denser than water that is why sometimes you float and sometimes sink depending how you move your feet and arms and how much air you can hold in your lungs and whether you choose to swim in freshwater or saltwater(which have the density of 1027 kg/m³).

Now coming to the most curious of this video how quickly you will die? Now again you think we'll instantly with no pain and slowly melt but it's not the scenario. In place of your instant death, there will be a lot of fireworks. When you will come in contact in lava and breath the superheated air around lava when entering in your lungs will burn your lungs from inside and other liquids such as water will turn into steam and start expanding. 

The same thing will happen to your other body parts. They will expand until they reach to the maximum pressure that your skin can bear and if the pressure exceeds furthermore than boom, the blood, your internal organs, and water will come out from your body with an explosion just like a lava eruption.

Here's a video in which a guy through a bag filled with some organic materials and food (from which our body is made up of) in a volcano. The bag and the material not just melt or disappear from the surface instead of this it just formed a little eruption there. Our body consists of 70% of water and when the underground water comes in contact with magma inside the earth's crust it turns into a stem and the pressure inside the earth's crust increases significantly. 

When this pressure exceeds its limits it suddenly comes out through the week parts of the crust and creates eruption, this magma is know called as lava. Now imagine that crust is the skin of your body and magma(or lava) is the blood and water inside your body the same will happen to you(an explosion). 

When your brain will come in contact with lava, the water in your brain behave similarly, potentially causing your hand to explode as the pressure from your brain boiling alive goes above the threshold of the amount of pressure pushing outwards your skull can contain. You will lose your consciousness within seconds due to extreme pain and within a minute you will die due to heart attack and stroke and extreme burning. 

Lava is dangerous it can destroy anything coming into its way but lava also helped in providing valuable and precious substances from the inner earth to the crust. Lava eruption also created the Huawei island many years before things can be good or bad it depends on us how we treat or feel about them. 

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