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Look up: lava

  1. lava
    A general term for molten rock that is extruded onto the surface.
    Found on http://www.solarviews.com/eng/terms.htm

  2. lava
    Any molten material that is extrusive or volcanic, or the rock that forms from a molten extrusive.
    Found on http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/glossary/gl

  3. Lava
    Lava is molten rock. It usually comes out of erupting volcanoes.
    Found on http://www.enchantedlearning.com/subject

  4. Lava
    Lava is the molten material expelled by a volcano. It cools to form igneous rock.
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/nol.php

  5. lava
    magma extruded out on to the earth's surface.
    Found on http://www.cst.cmich.edu/users/dietr1rv/

  6. lava
    [n] - rock that in its molten form (as magma) issues from volcanos
    Found on http://www.webdictionary.co.uk/definitio

  7. Lava
    the term for magma which has reached the Earth's surface and lost its dissolved gas content
    Found on http://www.sedgwickmuseum.org/education/

  8. LAVA
    A language for VLSI that deals with 'sticks', i.e. wires represented as lines with thickness. ['A Target Language for Silicon Compilers', R.J. Matthews et al, IEEE COMPCON, 1982, pp. 349-353]. (1994-12-07)
    Found on

  9. LAVA
    Laboratory Animal Veterinary Association
    Found on http://www.geocities.com/~mlshams/acrony

  10. lava
    hard igneous rock Category: Chemistry
    Found on http://www.mijnwoordenboek.nl/definition

  11. Lava
    La'va (lä'vȧ; 277) noun [ Italian lava lava, orig. in Naples, a torrent of rain overflowing the streets, from Italian & Latin lavare to wash. See Lave .] The melted rock ejected by a volcano from its top or fissured sides. It flows out in streams sometimes miles in length. It also issues from fissures in the earth's surface, and forms beds covering many square miles, as in t ...
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/L/20

  12. lava
    noun rock that in its molten form (as magma) issues from volcanos; lava is what magma is called when it reaches the surface
    Found on http://wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?

  13. Lava
    `Lava` is molten rock expelled by a volcano during an eruption. When first expelled from a volcanic vent, it is a liquid at temperatures from 700 ðC to 1,200 ðC (1,300 ðF to 2,200 ðF). Although lava is quite viscous, with about 100,000 times the viscosity of water, it can flow great distances before cooling and solidifying, because of its thixotropic and shear thinning properties , . A `lava flow` is a (moving) outpouring of lava, which is creat...
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lava

  14. Lava
    • (n.) The melted rock ejected by a volcano from its top or fissured sides. It flows out in streams sometimes miles in length. It also issues from fissures in the earth`s surface, and forms beds covering many square miles, as in the Northwestern United States.
    Found on http://thinkexist.com/dictionary/meaning

  15. Lava
    (from the article `Sthanakavasi`) ...meetinghouse (sthanak) rather than at a temple, differs from the Shvetambara sect in its rejection of image worship and temple ritual. The subsect ...
    Found on http://www.britannica.com/eb/a-z/l/22

  16. Lava
    (from the article `St`) ...proved it by voluntarily undergoing an ordeal by fire. Rma, however, banished her to the forest in deference to public opinion. There she gave ...
    Found on http://www.britannica.com/eb/a-z/l/22

  17. lava
    magma (molten rock) emerging as a liquid onto the Earth`s surface. The term lava is also used for the solidified rock formed by the cooling of a ... [18 related articles]
    Found on http://www.britannica.com/eb/a-z/l/22

  18. Lava
    Lava is a English girl name. The meaning of the name is `Moulton Earth` From Old English. The name Lava doesn`t appear In the US top 1000 most common names over de last 128 years. The name Lava seems to be unique!
    Found on http://i-am-pregnant.com/names/girls/Lav

  19. lava
    lava 1. The molten, fluid rock that issues from a volcano or volcanic vent. 2. The rock formed when this solidifies, occurring in many varieties differing greatly in structure and constitution. 3. First recorded about 1750, from Italian (Neapolitan or Calabrian dialect) lava 'torrent, stream', traditionally from Latin lavare 'to wash'. Originally app...
    Found on http://www.wordinfo.info/words/index/inf

  20. Lava
    Molten magma released from a volcanic vent or fissure.
    Found on http://www.physicalgeography.net/physgeo

  21. lava
    Lava moves across the ground as a pahoehoe flow, Kilauea Volcano, Hawai'i. Credit: J. D. Griggs / U.S. Geological Survey Molten rock that erupts onto the surface of a planet or moon, from a volcano or fissure, and is hot enough to flow (before it reaches the surface it is called magma); also, th...
    Found on http://www.daviddarling.info/encyclopedi

  22. lava
    lava (lä'vu) , molten rock that erupts on the earth's surface, either on land or under the ocean, by a volcano or through a fissure. It solidifies into igneous rock that is also called lava. Before reaching the earth's surface, the mixture of solid and liquid rock, and gases, is known as ma...
    Found on http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/sci/A08290


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24 November 2009

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