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How to pronounce lava in English?

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Type Words
Type of volcanic rock
Has types aa, pahoehoe, pillow lava

Examples of lava

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The rubbish mounds smoulder like a lava flow which has only just come to a halt.
From the economist.com
Allow to sit for 5 minutes so that the molten cheese lava can cool just a touch.
From the post-gazette.com
Lava flow from Kilauea Hawaii flows into the steaming Pacific ocean, Big Island.
From the sciencedaily.com
Don't be disappointed if you are prohibited from standing next to the lava flow.
From the usatoday.com
It was a barren landscape with relatively fresh lava flows and rocks everywhere.
From the scientistatwork.blogs.nytimes.com
These and later flows covered increasingly large areas and built a lava plateau.
From the en.wikipedia.org
Lava is generally not thought to be able to create such finely crafted features.
From the sciencedaily.com
But Harris questions the idea of using lava for grand-scale nanotube production.
From the newscientist.com
Lava domes are viscous, sticky masses of magma that pile up high above the vent.
From the sciencedaily.com
More examples
  • Rock that in its molten form (as magma) issues from volcanos; lava is what magma is called when it reaches the surface
  • Lava is the molten rock expelled by a volcano during an eruption. The resulting rock after solidification and cooling is also called lava. The molten rock is formed in the interior of some planets, including Earth, and some of their satellites. The source of the heat that melts the rock within the earth is geothermal energy...
  • Lava is a color that is a shade of red.
  • Lava is a 2001 British black comedy directed by Joe Tucker.
  • Lava is an experimental, visual object-oriented, interpreter-based programming language with an associated programming environment (LavaPE = Lava Programming Environment) that gets along without a text editor but is totally based on structure editors. ...
  • Lava is a heavy-duty hand cleaner made by WD-40, first produced in 1893. WD-40 acquired the brand from Block Drug in 1999 who acquired it from Procter & Gamble in 1995. It was originally developed by the Waltke Company of St. Louis in 1893. ...
  • The melted rock ejected by a volcano from its crater or fissured sides; magma
  • Any molten material that is extrusive or volcanic, or the rock that forms from a molten extrusive.
  • Molten rock that erupts from a fissure or a vent (see magma).