How to pronounce “lava” in English

Lavanya is here in spirit.

Lavabit, most recently, shut itself down rather than give up 400,000 of its users to, I believe, the FBI.

Its lava flows harden into broad flanks of basalt that end up looking kind of like a shield.

When lava is extra sticky, it can’t “flow” away from the vent.

Sometimes lava domes stand freely on their own.

And lava flows aren't, you can't predict exactly where they're going to go or the forms that they will take.

So lava flows are a really good way that we can check the pulse of different volcanoes and assess the hazards.

The lava flows very slowly.

Enough lava erupted at this time that it would have covered the lower 48 states 600 feet deep in lava.

Because lava is actually moving pretty slowly.

But lavash itself is a really special bread.

and it bled lava for millions of years. And as that lava came up through those cracks in the

and we have the lava flows right over those dinosaur bones.

Low-silica lava, also called mafic lava, creates super runny flows that race across the surface in rivers or spurt up as fountains.

High-silica lava, called felsic lava, is thick and sticky, preventing the gases from easily escaping.

But if the lava is extra gassy or has slightly more silica, eruptions can get a little more explosive.

So basaltic lava in particular contains a lot of iron and magnesium, and those materials can oxidize when they're in contact with air.

So this lava in this picture is just a few months old, and that beauty, that up-close beauty, the whole iridescence

dubbed the Lava Man.

And this lava that I'm taking a sample of, this is for science.

quench the lava material, basically solidifying it and preserving the gas and minerals that are inside of the mix.

It's not lava, and yes, it's blue.

It is not lava.

There's lava.

So the lava flows mostly through underground tubes to the ocean.

So when the lava hits the ocean, it creates new land right in front of you.

It's a lava tube that we've already explored.

And Earth lava, while sharp, is still not as sharp as Mars lava.

The same way as lava, a hot fluid where everything is mixed and everything is chaotic, when it starts to cool down,

You've seen the lava lamps.

porous one made of lava that's big like the Mah where you get you know like at Rosa Mex they do guacamole and then that

And this river of lava was coming out of the earth.

So the lava, the lava comes forth.

Is this your first lava lamp menorah?

bit of lava, and then it starts to look like real estate, like, " Oh, 53,000 is cheap," that kind of

And these are the lava fields on the way to the hakarl producer.

There's lava rocks-- the lava canyons.

And along with that lava, you get a lot of toxic gases, a lot of greenhouse gases.

Because it's lava chilled by the vacuum of space.

Like undersea molten lava forming a new island, a piece of time detaching from the sea floor and floating up to the surface.

There's a molten lava lake in the center of that volcano.

The molten lava lake at the center of that big cloud of steam.

There's lavash on every table in Armenia.

Sometimes I call it lavash, but then it's lavash.

I've now said lavash enough times and we did a book talk in LA and they said, can you please tell people to pronounce it lavash?

We're working with Lavazza on something that is apparently simple.

Director of Innovation for Lavazza.

to provide women's lavatories in every one of these listed buildings. Well, miraculously of course, the Sex Discrimination Act was introduced 30 years ago; we've got through

narrow corridors and small lavatories and Tiny dressing rooms so I know what it's like to really live in these