How Far Volcanologists Go To Test Lava | Science Skills
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- When volcanologists need to figure out things like how fast a lava flow moves, why adding water can cause an explosion, or even how volcanoes work on other planets, sampling lava is the key. But a volcano isn't the only place you can get some. The team behind the Syracuse University Lava Project makes it in-house on a bigger scale than any other program like it. So, how do lab and field work come together? On this episode of Science Skills, producer Abby Tang goes to work at the Lava Project and sits down with field-expert Ben Edwards to understand the tools of the trade from hard to almost impossible.
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Testing Lava, From Hard To Almost Impossible | Science Skills - Věda a technologie
as a geologist, I can assure you, volcanologists are the funky portion of us. these guys are really brave on studying volcanoes. many of them lost their lives in the field. but they got to see some of the coolest stuff in their lives.
What's the main cause of death though? The heat? Getting hit by something? Poisoning by gases?
@@stauffap caught in the pyroclastic flow, ash flow or just simply get blown into ash during a rhyolitic type eruption. The ash are several hundred degree hot. you get cooked really well.
There are quite a lot of stories. Katia and Maurice Krafft a famous couple volcanologists. were killed while filming Mt. Unzen by the clast flow. Their colleague, friend David Johnston another famous geologist was killed in the St. Helen eruption.
If I remembered correctly, David Johnston wasnt suppose to be there at St. Helen that day. he did some work for someone else. cant remember if it was suppose to be Maurice Krafft. but later this guy dead as well. Its like god claimed you anyway.
fyi, pyroclastic flow can go somewhere like 50miles per hr or more. Its super dead if you get caught in.
"coolest" lol
@@stauffap most probably poisoning (Or getting hit by rocks)
I think he meant hottest stuff
I'm thankful for the enthusiastic curiosity of Ben Edwards and others like him that ensures we'll likely keep trying to answer the ultimate question: "Why?"
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I'd imagine understanding movement could assist in modelling past, present and future eruptions, check out lava plateau's.
@@ikimiyu
Yes. Couldn't have said it better myself.
@Steph C
......yours is good too
@@IronFist9595
".....hmmmmm. No sir, I do not like it."
- Mr. Horse
For all non-Americans:
Temp 1: 2000 - 2400°F = 1093 - 1315°C
Temp 2: 2800°F = 1537°C
Temp 3: 2150°F = 1176°C
Temp 4: 1600 - 2200°F = 871 - 1204°F
Temp 5: 3600°F = 1982°C
You're welcome (took me 45 minutes including watching, pausing, converting, writing it in the comments. I'm in bed w/o pen & paper.) Please don't be lazy creators especially when science is involved and use °C as main as that's the way scientists work and add the °F for indicator for the US viewers.
Thank you very much!
thanks
Omgg tysmm
thank you!
you are right
all scientists should use metric and imperial too because science
Love to see someone teaching about something they love! They infuse that passion in you, even when you “don’t like it”
1000%😹
@GangBalls69_Estonia mmkooo
Getting an accurate blueprint of lava physics is just going to be mainly used in video games
Lols
who know what that might inspire...
@@PrograError *Doom Theme*
So that's why SilkSong's taking so long, they were just making the lava in the forest of bones more realistic
And i think thats beatifull
Iceland, in geological terms, has got to be the most ironic landmass on this Earth...
And Greenland
It's more green than ice and there's volcanoes as well.
Japan and indonesian : yeah rightttt😒
We were taught as a child about the land of "fire and ice" with a fairy tale. I think it is not ironic but very accurate
@@txlegion5746 it’s ironic because of the name
"the furnace runs on 2000 to 2400 degrees farenheit"
the world: ok
why nobody uses metric?
@@kajetus0688 idk they wanna be inconsistent ig
Ok
When we learned it's 1300°C "DAMN SON THAT'S HAWT"
Why ? I can figure out C⁰ conversions in my head... F= C⁰ * 1.8 + 32
satellites DON'T use gold foil. The gold and silver colored sheets you see are often a single layer of aluminized polyimide with the silver aluminum side facing in. The yellowish-gold color of the polyimide on the outside gives the satellite the appearance of being wrapped in gold.
Wow, the more you know. . .
@CrowVid gold is not an hard metal but being brittle is just a matter of thickness. any metal can be brittle too. even aluminium or titanium.
@CrowVid You couldn't be more wrong: Gold is the least brittle element we've ever discovered. Think about it: if Gold was brittle, how on earth do you think we'd have made gold leaf - which can be meters wide but only a few atoms thick?
Sure is pretty though
oh
_"Sticky, Hot, and Fresh out of the source."_
-My Brain giving an instant description
:)
😂
What?!
What?!
@@yitababi1798 🌝🌝
His passion and sheer love for the field is emanating from him, and it's so amazing to see someone speak so passionately about something they love.
Fun fact: he actually drink fire resistance potion and dig straight down to get the piece of mantle with diamond because he use silk touch pickaxe
wow
wow
Let an adult check your work before you hand it in.
@@laxtobuttgroyn1193 nah bro hes right im an expert
@@laxtobuttgroyn1193 I have a PhD and I was only born 4 minutes ago so I can confirm that he is indeed an expert
He talks about satellites being covered in gold foil but the gold and silver colored sheets you see are often a single layer of aluminized polyimide with the silver aluminum side facing in. The yellowish-gold color of the polyimide on the outside gives the satellite the appearance of being wrapped in gold.
You win the internet, today! Somehow the reference to the sheets covering the satellite seemed overly simplified and heavily glossed over. Thank You.
I've never heard of Ben Edward's before but he has that type of charm that you just don't want to shut off. I could listen to him talk lava/ volcanology for hours!
Sometimes I look out the window and am reminded that I live next to the most active volcano in Japan. And it`s just like. Huh. Why do people live here?
It beautiful
Simple reason: fertile soil. Lands surrounding volcanoes, even active ones, has the most richest fertile soil in existence.
@@isabeljackson1333 also cultural significance
@@isabeljackson1333 Mt Fuji is divine and it's beauty is immeasurable 😍😍😍
@@alexbroomfield2550 that too
i lowkey wanna dip my hands in it and jump into a lake of it like glowing general tsos chicken sauce
I want to lick the forbidden hot sauce
Well all I can say, you should low-key not
whenever i see lava, i just want to stick my finger in it
I want to eat it
@@AlbertKimMusic same it looks satisfying but can be deadly
The forbidden laffy taffy
Ben Edwards clearly has THE most fun doing his job! Brilliant to see guys like him doing such important research - and so dangerous too.
I love how professional looks really enthusiast with their job and the topics they shared.
Such a great video, but couldn't you have temperature in both imperial AND metric?
(Wow my most popular comment ever, thanks guys!)
Super easy to do a quick Google converter but yeah that would be cool
@@nikkis7375 nah im lazy
2400÷1.8-32= 1301
It would be really cool if they still add an celsius because americans isnt the only people who watch their videos
@@yxles literally America is the only one using the imperial system. Most other countries on earth use metric.
I wish they defined the difference between magma and lava because they seem to use them interchangeably here. For anyone who’s wondering magma is molten rock from our earth’s mantle (which is liquid, only the earths core and crust are solid). Lava is when the magma has been exposed to our atmosphere (when it touches air). Hope this helps!
What’s the use of this distinction? Seems pedantic
@@enderwiggins8248 they have geologically and compositionally different molecular structures from the presence of oxygen, nitrogen, and carbon dioxide. Also magma is an absolute liquid while lava has a high viscosity
You guys could have added Celcius subtitle too, There is world outside US
Cope and seethe
Please ignore the troll, he doesn't know any better.
Many world outside US actually, they're the one that messed it up by using miles, feet, fahrenheit, etc.
But it is a video made in the US. We don't complain on British videos or others when they have different measurements....
@@tabora_ How dare you bring up points such as logic!
Technically, they both come from the Earth. Love the line about being in the field for posterity. Very astute observation!
all science is also for posterity, she is clueless in this video, thats why youtubers that have science channels are the best for these kind of videos and not these corporate style channels
I mean... I'd say it's mainly important for science and to build on past data to do the thing they were mostly talking about in this video- keep ppl safe. And just pure knowledge- how does this work?
You got people from Hawaii telling people who do thud study to leave their land alone. I lived in Hawaii all my life and I don't get why people don't understand that they're trying to help us.
well... i mean... just look at the COVID response... people are screaming fake news and rejecting help such as vaccines...
I mean if native ppl don't want like sciencetist encroaching on their stuff than that's their right🤷🏾♀️
@@ennenoire So you think it's better for them to lose their homes and die painfully?
@@awman698 home loss is just a part of living in a place with an active volcano, ain't no way that any volcanologist is fkn lava proofing smth. House prices on the islands literally follow where the lava is most likely to flow anyway hence lower income ppl are on the more likely side. I feel like there's more that can be done for these people than encroaching on their land to get more data on the most heavily monitored volcano in the world. Also, when has any of the shield volcanos produced notable death tolls in the past 100yrs???
@Levi idk as someone who is 1) not a native Hawaiian and 2) understands that scientists are trying to destroy a sacred mountain out there to build a giant radio telescope and that's a source of great distress. I do feel that knowing *more* about something that ultimately isn't an immediate concern should be priority over genuine human concern. The air of caution sways towards that prefer that the ppl that want their land shouldn't be messed with more than has already been done against the native pop of hawaii
It always a nice surprise that I often enjoy the methods and innovations created for a specific scientific purpose more than the science itself. You made a so-so topic of my personal interests into a engaging video.
A guy I went to school with is out in Madison Wisconsin doing work studying corrosion in molten salts. Loved getting that Wisconsin mention in there I hope his work is around stuff like this
Okay, I'll bite. This is, like, the fifth video in the last few weeks I've seen about the Syracuse University lava furnace. What gives?
omg same, i thought i was having mad deja vu
One person did it, its was popular so now everyone must do it
I've got to admit, i didn't expect this video to be as informative and catching as it was. Just seeing the power a volcano can have is both fascinating and yet frightening. Good theres people out there in the field doing the work not only that they love but to inform and help maybe even prevent catastrophic events in the future
I love their excitement and passion they show for their work. It makes it all so fascinating.
Great video and great work on behalf on your reporter. You can see the effort she puts in to clarify details for the audience all throughout the videos. Love this type of content!
That final clip at the end of you and ariana roasting marshmallows was such an adorable treat for us 😂
I learned so much from this video!
This was incredible from beginning to end.
Are we not gonna talk about them calling lava forbidden honey?
to be true...
they are right...
Wow… I mean I understand that they should have the conversions, but holy shit these comments are ANGRY for some reason.
I want all those laboratory lava flows framed and put in an exhibition.
This was super interesting!!
0:28
“You underestimate my power”
“Don’t try it”
*slaps* *furnace*
This makes so much la-ARGGHHHH!
Next time someone says it's 2000 degrees hot I'm just gonna say "oh medium"
This was actually pretty interesting to watch. Legit listened to every word
Instead of putting 2150°F on the screen how about you put on a conversion to a unit the world is using like idk Celsius or something?
I’m guessing she’s American and lives in America where Americans use Fahrenheit so maybe that’s why
@@johnthompson5741 didn't he show Russian Icelandic and French volcanoes? Are they in America too? Maybe that's it 🧐
@@bulletsfordinner8307 if I (American, user of imperial system) take a vacation to France and go to the beach, I’m not gonna post a Snapchat story with the temperature as 30° even though that’s what’s used in France. I’m still gonna put like 90° on my story because that’s what’s normal to me even though my location has changed
@@johnthompson5741 the difference is your audience. The people you’d be sharing it with are people used to Fahrenheit. However, not everyone in the audience for this video is accustomed to Fahrenheit and chances are, they’re more accustomed to Celsius. I don’t necessarily expect them to change their script to say Celsius instead but at least do it the way Veritasium does it with putting both Celsius and Fahrenheit on the screen.
Cope and seethe
the steel mill I work at the furnace is 5 times that furnaces size with heat up to 2800 to 3200 degrees, we have to use water panels to keep it from destroying itself, we even use all the silvers they're using here our furnace holds up to 175 tons of molten steel, this is a really cool idea that was made here and glad to see these people using the proper PPE, cause without it being near that heat will give you a heat stoke, dehydration or cook you alive but really I like the video
Love the extra knowledge 😍
We visited La Palma from Tenerife recently, shot footage and photos and were in absolute awe.
After seeing those bubbles in the flow and hearing that Syracuse wants their lava at 2150°f, which is coincidentally the same temp my university's glass furnace is kept at, I now really want to blow with basalt instead of soda lime glass
When the lava was splashing while being poured, i legit felt those drops in my eyes...
As a Vulcanologist I find this video highly logical 🖖🏼
They need to use this on the roads in the winter in Syracuse
Deadly and Mesmerizing at the same time....🤩
I would have liked to see Celsius or Kelvin, such a cool video
Who tf is Kelvin?
@@jeremyweems4916 Kelvin is a measure of units, for temperature. You convert Fahrenheit, to Celsius; Celsius is used in Science more than Fahrenheit, then Celsius to Kelvin, because it's less numbers to write. Celsius and Kelvin are universal
@@Shalyn-ln9tu I'm aware lol
It was a joke.
@@jeremyweems4916 wish you added something for it 😂🤣
Maybe I’m just crazy but when they were putting the lava in the bucket of water to cool it the texture looked oddly appetizing
Gf: He's probably out cheating on me
Me and the boys: Let's make lava
Really interesting science. The visuals reveal so much
For me - a good, fun and informative video.
The presenters seem fairly young - and did a good job.
The video appeared to concentrate on the methods used - in an exciting and fascinating way.
It may be nice to get a few (or a few more) of the findings from these methods.
Reporter: How hot is the crucible now?
Scientist: "Medium"
Reporter: ???
Also Scientist: I judge the heat by sound
lol
lol
americans now use sound to defy temperature?! come on man, theyre being inconsistent already with imperial measurements!
this was super well documented
I do metal work and mess around with glass. It can get stupid hot. But its so fascinating when you combine different elements at different temperatures to see how the universe works. Then I try to make things that don't make sense. And burn the Hell out of myself. To me. This is just fascinating. It never gets old. Like the time I tried to fuse iron with titanium. I almost burned my shop down. It was epic and frightening at the same time. Good clean fun.
Who stops to ask "am I in the flow zone of this erupting volcano?"
Do you think the anyone has made an obsidian bobble with the lab's lava? I want to try glass blowing with it so bad!
I'd imagine you'd need very specialized tools that probably don't exist for that though. Lol
Insider Science: makes an informative video about how volcanic research is being done.
Comments: just complains that they used Fahrenheit
I live in Syracuse and this is amazing to know that we could make lava
I find it crazy how you can melt ROCKS
Great vid....now please do the Celcius version please.
Omg! I love your chanel cause i love sciance!
She probably had no idea what they where talking about but I'll give her props for doing it
Journey Across Japan song: "Too Much Volcano"
Ahh yes use Fahrenheit which is used by only America in a video meant for the entire world
This is pretty satisfying to watch
Super video! Well done.
I stopped watching the second the temperature was in only Fahrenheit.
Suposedly knowing that the internet connects the whole World, I find it curious that (so many) American people do not realize that their message won't be understandable to so many millions of viewers because of their local systems of measure (inches, pounds, farenheit, etc). I imagine that they don't realize that they are so different from the overwhelming majority of the World's population, and they don't care, or simply ignore it.
@@xionmemoria The comment was about the laziness of the people that make the videos, no the viewers. 💩🤣
Cry more
@@xionmemoria Why would thousands of people lose their time to convert, when a single lazy editor could have done his job properly? Honey, stop crying about the rest of the world being bothered by your old ways.
Great video
Can you guys include metric units as well!
-Just to avoid confusion, space satellites are not wrapped in gold. That is polyester and aluminum, known as a "Mylar blanket." The *color* helps accomplish the reflection of infrared light, so using actual gold is not necessary. Only when you want to reflect nearly 100% infrared would one use actual gold, so that's why the primary mirror of the James Webb Space Telescope is coated in actual gold.
Lava is a blood and when a lava comes from a volcano
which means Earth accidentally touch its pimple.
Well. You can put it that way
2:15 scientist: medium temperature? I call that moment when furnance makes this "woooshhhs" noice.
Thank you science!
It would be neat it you could design either a mixing system or high pressureco2/so2 injection system into the pot to simulate natural lava further. Their simulation lava has very little gas content and according to another video, elemental iron separates out from the silica over time of their repeat pourings (due to not being mixed)
This is an amazing amount of cranky commenters about about Imperial and metric measurements. 😏
Metric system please?
Indeed, please provide at least both metric and imperial units, you have "Science" in the channel name after all..
@@cashkaval Exactly!
@@AustinThomasPhD and in doing so, limiting their audience to US only
@@cashkaval not even an exaggeration to say that bc literally no other part of the world uses the imperial system
Im American. Even i was shocked she didnt use the metric system.
Love how HI didn't have triangle at the beginning but the west cost does... XD
Also VERY happy to see that they are melting rock not glass like some YT channels are. Saying the glass is "lava".
I Iive in Pahoa, Hawaii. This was really interesting. Thank you.
please add standard units instead of using imperial units please
there are other viewers not from america
but overall a great educational video
it is a science video too. this shit is sinful in the science community in America.
@@rippedpantsaj ngl its sinful to every scientific comuinity ever
fahrenheit 🤔🤷🏻♂️
This would be a good way to research how to simulate molten fluids in 3D software as well
lava always fascinates me.
imagine being inside a lava cave deep under a volcano how violent it is
Bro, I stopped the moment temperatures showed up in Fahrenheit 😭 like?? Who even uses that anymore?
only USA
would have been helpful to a lot of viewers if the temperature in Celsius was also on the screen along with Fahrenheit. Just to be clear, I am too lazy to open google and convert the temperature to Celsius. I guess I will never know that sweet temperature spot of lava. Still loved the video
At a very young age, i love volcanos. Now that i'm older, still do. Loved this video. Volcanology, i should have studied more, loved all the characteristics of it. I didn't follow this dream.
more people need to know about this lab because several news sources site htme as the only one making lava
Humans trying to predict and tame nature is funny
Meteorology has achieved a notable degree of accuracy in predicting weather; we all hope volcanology and geology could do it too. When you live in the vicinity of a volcano, or in a place prone to earthquakes, or both (Chilean here), with their entourage of tsunamis, you don't laugh at science efforts, but pray they get on it faster.
Regarding "taming" nature, agriculture, husbandry, engineering, urbanism, are doing their part. When you go to the kitchen, open a faucet, and water comes from it, just think of all the distance that water traveled before ending in your morning coffee.
Also, climate change proves we can affect nature much more than we ever imagined. Please vote for authorities that be aware of the effort needed to not making that kind of taming worse than what it is now.
God put the Man in charge of the Garden of Eden. We are still in charge of this home of ours.
Measuring temperature with sound? Not very scientific sir.
Still better than Fahrenheit
Sound waves travel at different speeds through the same material but at different temperatures. So it is actually perfectly scientific.
These guys really love lava. That’s awesome!
"Ben, Move back, you're smoking!"
"I know I am"
Celsius please
Now i need to google just to know how much is 2k fahrenheit. Come on, celsius please!
I’ve been there! One of my favorite rocks in my collection is a piece of obsidian I watched solidify from this machine!
As a kid I always thought of Volcanology as lame because I did not know how much more theres to this specific science than just looking at fluid rock.
Absolutely love Abby's hair! that shade of red looks awesome.
Lotta people pissed about Fahrenheit being used like they’re suddenly unable to google. Who cares how hot it is anyway it’s fuckin lava, it’s hot. Literally that’s all you need to know who tf gunna remember exactly how hot this one CZcams video said lava is like. If it’s not important enough to you to look up then shut up about it and watch the video lmfao
On your map at 0.32 showing volcanoes around the world, you ignore Britain which does have a volcano in which the city of Bath is built that includes the Hot Water Springs. While claiming to be inactive the fact it has its Hot Water Springs must show there must be activity below the surface and could come as a surprise to the residents of Bath if it ever becomes active again.
I don't see what the big deal is, I have some lava in a lamp in my bedroom.