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you can only smell it a little bit but if you stand very close you can smell it a lot.it smells of berning lava and lave smells like a fire. so thats what you can smell.

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Lava typically smells very pungent, like rotten eggs, due to the burning of sulfur and other noxious chemicals.

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they smell like fire , and coal

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volcanoes only smell if they are about to erupt or if they are "erupting" it is announced volcanoes can also give off warnings like earthquakes before erupting like pompeii's example destroyed 2 towns herculaneum and pompeii but they only smell when they are erupting or releasing pressure.

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lava smells like sulfur and sulfur smells like someone overcooked and egg or left it on the side to go rotten like a burning rotten egg.

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burned rotten egg

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