{"id":12635,"date":"2021-09-06T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-09-06T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.boboli.es\/boboliland\/?p=12635"},"modified":"2023-04-25T10:37:05","modified_gmt":"2023-04-25T08:37:05","slug":"did-you-know-theres-a-volcano-in-indonesia-that-blasts-out-blue-lava","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.boboli.es\/boboliland\/en\/did-you-know-theres-a-volcano-in-indonesia-that-blasts-out-blue-lava\/","title":{"rendered":"Did you know there\u2019s a volcano in Indonesia that blasts out \u201c blue lava\u201d?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Kawah Ijen\u00a0is one of the most extravagant volcanoes in the world due to the <strong>colour of the lava it ejects when it erupts<\/strong>. At first glance it\u2019s like a bright electric blue almost as if it were of another planet. But, why is the lava of this volcano blue?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>We\u2019ll start by clarifying that it is not the lava that is blue, which is quite an unusual colour for a volcano. The blue radiance is due to the <strong>burning of sulphuric gases in contact with the air at temperatures above 360\u00b0C.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img width=\"793\" height=\"453\" src=\"https:\/\/www.boboli.es\/boboliland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/volcan-kawah-ijen-lava-azul-azufre-portada.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12560\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.boboli.es\/boboliland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/volcan-kawah-ijen-lava-azul-azufre-portada.jpg 793w, https:\/\/www.boboli.es\/boboliland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/volcan-kawah-ijen-lava-azul-azufre-portada-300x171.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.boboli.es\/boboliland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/volcan-kawah-ijen-lava-azul-azufre-portada-768x439.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.boboli.es\/boboliland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/volcan-kawah-ijen-lava-azul-azufre-portada-780x446.jpg 780w, https:\/\/www.boboli.es\/boboliland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/volcan-kawah-ijen-lava-azul-azufre-portada-600x343.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.boboli.es\/boboliland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/volcan-kawah-ijen-lava-azul-azufre-portada-550x314.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.boboli.es\/boboliland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/volcan-kawah-ijen-lava-azul-azufre-portada-370x211.jpg 370w, https:\/\/www.boboli.es\/boboliland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/volcan-kawah-ijen-lava-azul-azufre-portada-255x146.jpg 255w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 793px) 100vw, 793px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The lava of this volcano that explodes from the earth at a formidable temperature does not have a different colour from that of other volcanoes. However, the Kawah Ijen also ejects huge quantities of sulphuric gases at a high pressure and at extremely high temperatures that sometimes touch 600 \u00b0C. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So, when <strong>the sulphur is exposed to the oxygen present in the air, it bursts into flames easily and we see the gorgeous effect of electric blue lava<\/strong>. This effect is only visible at night. During the day it looks much like any other volcano.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kawah Ijen\u00a0is one of the most extravagant volcanoes in the world due to the colour of the lava it ejects when it erupts. At first glance it\u2019s like a bright electric blue almost as if it were of another planet. But, why is the lava of this volcano blue?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":12496,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"loftocean_post_format_gallery":"","loftocean_post_format_gallery_ids":"","loftocean_post_format_gallery_urls":"","loftocean_post_format_video_id":0,"loftocean_post_format_video_url":"","loftocean_post_format_video_type":"","loftocean_post_format_video":"","loftocean_post_format_audio_type":"","loftocean_post_format_audio_url":"","loftocean_post_format_audio_id":0,"loftocean_post_format_audio":"","loftocean-featured-post":"","loftocean-like-count":2,"loftocean-view-count":3590,"tinysalt_single_post_intro_label":"","tinysalt_single_post_intro_description":"","tinysalt_hide_post_featured_image":"","tinysalt_post_featured_media_position":"","tinysalt_hide_before_page_content_ad":"","tinysalt_hide_after_page_content_ad":"","tinysalt_hide_page_header":"","tinysalt_advanced_classname":"","tinysalt_page_featured_media_position":""},"categories":[580,579],"tags":[731],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boboli.es\/boboliland\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12635"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boboli.es\/boboliland\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boboli.es\/boboliland\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boboli.es\/boboliland\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boboli.es\/boboliland\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12635"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.boboli.es\/boboliland\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12635\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16351,"href":"https:\/\/www.boboli.es\/boboliland\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12635\/revisions\/16351"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boboli.es\/boboliland\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boboli.es\/boboliland\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boboli.es\/boboliland\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boboli.es\/boboliland\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}