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Is lava a liquid or a gas?

Lava is a liquid. It is molten rock that flows like a thick fluid when erupted from a volcano.


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Lava.


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What is it called a seismic wave bends as it passes from liquid to solid rock?

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Solid rock cannot flow because its particles are locked into a fixed position due to strong intermolecular forces. However, hot liquid rock can flow because its particles have enough energy to move past each other and change position, allowing it to flow like a fluid.


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When melted rock solidifies, it forms an igneous rock. This process is known as crystallization.


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The Lithosphere is solid rock floating on molten rock.


When melted rock crystallizes into a solid form it becomes a?

It becomes an igneous rock.


Large blobs of magma that hardens in the air?

Firstly, it forms lava (liquid). When it hadens, it becomes a rock (solid).


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It cools and becomes solid


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