Lava is also around 100,000 times more viscous than water (viscosity being the measure of a liquid's resistance to change in movement or shape). Put those two together, and the result is that a ...

Lava with less silica in it has lower viscosity, meaning it is less thick and oozy than you've come to expect of lava. As a result, it flows much faster than other lavas, and cools as it does so ...

called alkaline lava, has an extremely low viscosity, making it almost as fluid as water. Alkaline lava has a melting temperature in excess of 2,000 degrees Fahrenheit. The fluidity and extreme ...

It can hold hundreds of kilos of lava and execute experiments about viscosity, morphology, structures, and formations. But she's a little bit finicky when it comes to lava-making. Bob: The furnace ...

Alternatively "Is it all glass?" Rubin asked, because that would have important impacts on lava viscosity — making it more or less runny, and potentially allowing scientists to more easily ...

A lava tube may also form, beneath the surface of the ground, when low viscosity lava develops a hard crust through which lava flows.