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Molten Lava Can Boil Seawater Completely Dry

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Lava-ocean entries at (top) Piton de la Fournaise Volcano, Indian Ocean (photograph from Imaz Press, Reunion); (middle) Stromboli Volcano, Italy, photograph from Stromboli Online (http://www.swisseduc.ch/stromboli) and (bottom) Kīlauea Volcano, Hawai`i (photograph by Don Swanson).