molten lava
Flowing volcanic material
Molten lava is lava in its liquid state, flowing from a volcanic eruption.
The phrase is technically redundant—lava is by definition molten rock—but common usage treats it as an intensifier emphasizing the hot, flowing quality: Rivers of molten lava poured down the mountainside.
The redundancy parallels phrases like "frozen ice" or "burning fire."
- magmaMolten rock underground
- volcanoEarth's fiery vent
- volcanic eruptionExplosive geological discharge
- eruptionViolent sudden release
- flowUnbroken forward movement
rivers of fire · fire · ring of fire · heat · glow · orange · red · scorching · burnt to a crisp · pyroclastic · crater · viscous · bubbling · oozing · incandescent · ash · smoke · destruction
physical state and temperature
molten lavasolid rock
Continuous, hard stone
glacier · ice · permafrost · igneous rock · polar ice
molten, lava, melt, melted, melting, melts, meltdown, smelt, smelted