Can you drown in it?
Lava
Nathan Perez
Jayden Mitchell
No.
Oliver Clark
Probably not. Would you like to test my hypotheses, OP?
Evan Price
Stick your head in it, and inhale deeply.
Pretty sure there's no way to survive that.
So, yes.
Jack Gutierrez
Drowning can come from several reasons.
Either it is directly by a lack of breathable oxygen (as there is no O2 in water), but it is also due to fluid overvolume the lungs (in fresh water) or fluid overvolume in the body (salt water). This is because water is not directly corrosive or toxic to the body, allowing it to accumulate in a way that eventually deforms normal cell structure.
Lava would just burn you. Since its high temperature is directly harming to cells, it would kill you because of that.
Lucas Davis
Why does lava look so delicious?
Lincoln Jones
It makes me hungry for cheese
Kevin Long
Lava is melted rock. Your body (basically water) would hardly dent it. Only your head is denser than rock. Emphasis: "your."
Josiah Nguyen
Not entirely correct. Although you're undoubtedly wrong about it being rock and what physical traits rock has, in a liquid volume you can still penetrate it and hell if you had some sort of advanced equipment, swim in it. It'd be really ducking dense, but not too dense to enter.
>Sorry, not a postgrad or anything, just a welder who melts down steel and aluminum quite frequently, so don't quote me.
Colton Bailey
Geologist here. I suggest trying to breathe very mafic lava like from Hawaii because of its low viscosity. You can probably drink it at that viscosity (albeit once), breathing it is doubtful. But you can sure as hell try.
Jason Hill
Hypothetical question. You could technically drown in it but realisticly itd be the intense heat not lack of being able to breathe that would kill you
Charles Long
Try swimming in a pool of concrete. It's less dense than pure rock, having some water in it. You would hardly dent it.
I guess it depends on what your definition of "drown" is. Can you cup some up and shove it your face and clog your tubes? Well, I guess, but I imagined the question was more like, would you sink into it and be overwhelmed by it?
Come to think of it.... yes. There's proof. There are concrete workers buried in the concrete of the Hoover dam. But that stuff fell on the victims. They didn't fall in and sink.
All this of course, nevermind the heat factor.
Austin Harris
>clog your tubes
Clog your mom's tubes.
Ryder Martin
hahaha epic scientific comment buddy!
is this board always as informative as this?
Luke Nelson
>You could technically drown in
It would be too thick, you couldn't draw it into your lungs.
Landon White
You're like 1/3 as dense as rock. If you could ignore the heat, you would totally sit on top of it, with most of your body sitting above the surface of the lava.
Brandon Foster
Better question:
If lava was a sauce/spread, what flavour would it have?
I'm betting my virginity that it would taste like a salty, strong ajvar.
Benjamin Diaz
Being inside lava would kill you via heat before you'd have a chance to drown.
Cooper Williams
Salty milk and pennies.
Jose Scott
it's obviously orange flavoured
Aaron Myers
Lava=molten rocks, rocks are denser than human body is this what you asked OP?
Joseph Gonzalez
why don't you go and test it?
Jack Anderson
>there is no o2 in water
Bruh.... Fish are a thing you know.
Levi Mitchell
No, it doesn't act like the movies. It's completely nonfatal.
Adam Wood
Isn't drowning specific to a liquid filling your lungs, preventing you from breathing?
Isn't a lack of breathable oxygen just suffocation?
Cooper Walker
No too dense, you will burn to death then your flesh will melt and become one with the magma.
Nicholas Harris
O2 specifically refers to oxygen in its diatomic gas state
Lincoln Harris
Lava isn't a liquid. You could suffocate, but not inhale it.
Julian Nguyen
Lava turns out to have about the same density as concrete:
madsci.org
hypertextbook.com
Lava tends to be very dense but it does exhibit shear thinning properties. As this video demonstrates a jug of water disappears into the lava after impacting:
youtu.be
However, even if one survived such an impact one is probably going to get cooked before drowning becomes a problem. In pompeii air temperatures of 300 degrees C were enough to kill people in a fraction of a second: news.nationalgeographic.com
Jason Gonzalez
oxygen dissolved in water is still diatomic, doofus.
Brayden Richardson
In order to drown in lava, you would first have to get submersed in it and survive long enough to suffocate. So no, you can't drown in lava.
Anthony Stewart
Are you a retard?