When Indonesia’s Kawah Ijen volcano erupts, the lava can appear to be bright blue! But the blue doesn’t come from the lava at all. When hot sulfuric gases escape from cracks in the volcano, they condense into liquid sulfur and burn blue as they flow downhill like rivers of molten lava.
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