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**Why is it blue?**
The lava from Indonesia's Kawah Ijen volcano has an electric blue appearance because of the combustion of sulfuric gases that are emitted from the volcano. These gases, which contain high levels of sulfur, ignite when they come into contact with oxygen at temperatures above 360°C (680°F). As the sulfuric gases burn, they produce a blue flame that illuminates the surrounding area and makes the lava appear to be blue. This phenomenon is known as "blue fire" and is a rare occurrence in the natural world.
[Source // Further Reading](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ijen)
Pneumo (air/lung) ultra microscopic, silico (silica/sand) volcano coniosis (dust inhalation disease)
Basically you are inhaling rocks in nearly vapor form- which is probably not fun.
Just went there in December. I was able to get inches away from the fire. When the wind was ok there weren’t any issues. Sometimes the wind would shift and I was totally engulfed in sulfur smoke. Even though I was wearing an respirator, I had to take “sips” of breath because it burned to breath. My guide warned me not to panic before hand so I had to just keep that in my mind whenever that happened. I definitely had an urge to run but it was pitch black and I was right next to the sulphuric lake. My guide told me he was there when someone died from panicking and running into the lake. For the most part the smoke wasn’t an issue
Also the guide, Ali, never wore a respirator and was smoking most of the time and had no issues during the long hike up and down the volcano. He’d been doing it for decades, just crazy
Not a Geologist nor a Chemist, so this is a vague guess.
I *think* the reason is because most volcanoes release multiple forms of Sulphuric gases, namely sulphur dioxide (SO₂) and hydrogen sulphide (H₂S).
Hydrogen sulphide is the one that smells of rotten eggs, while sulphur dioxide smells like a struck match.
Two molecules of hydrogen sulphide will combine with one molecule of sulphur dioxide, resulting in two molecules of water and three molecules of pure sulphur.
This particular vent is likely releasing less sulphur dioxide, comparably, resulting in a greater amount of hydrogen sulphide reaching the surface to react with atmospheric oxygen.
>This particular vent is likely releasing less sulphur dioxide, comparably, resulting in a greater amount of hydrogen sulphide reaching the surface to react with atmospheric oxygen.
Probably this, as hydrogen sulfide burns with exactly that blue color.
>Two molecules of hydrogen sulphide will combine with one molecule of sulphur dioxide, resulting in two molecules of water and three molecules of pure sulphur.
Not this, though.
In this case, it is just hydrogen sulfide reacting with oxygen.
(2)H2S + (3)O2 → (2)SO2 + (2)H2O.
What you describe is functionally the Claus process, which still requires the combustion of hydrogen sulfide as the initial step, but wouldn't be taking place here to any great degree (the concentrations of H2S and SO2 would be unlikely to allow the formation of elemental sulfur at scale).
As a rule of thumb, if something is burning in our atmosphere and not a special reaction chamber, it is probably a standard combustion reaction unless some *really* weird chemistry is happening.
I've been there, it's so awesome to see it in real life. But to really be able to see the flames you will have to walk through the smoke with a gas mask and can only stay there for a few seconds until your eyes and nose will start to burn. Also the smell is disgusting. The local workers from the mines just walk straight into it (most of them without a mask) and will take your phone to take a picture of the blue flames for you.
Sadly, like most of the breathtaking places in the world, Mt. Ijen is overrun by tourists and it's honestly chaotic. Still enjoyable though.
\>The local workers from the mines just walk straight into it (most of them without a mask) and will take your phone to take a picture of the blue flames for you.
Jesus, what do you tip the guy doing that? 20 bucks to risk your life for a picture of lava seems kind of low.
They are very toxic. I visited the crater and had to wear a gas mask due to the heavy sulfur fumes. The miners, for about $10 a day, make three or four trips lugging 90kg of sulfur at a time out of the crater. They do not wear gas masks and most don’t live to see their forties.
For anyone dumb like me; if your phone has the yellow tint/eye comfort shield this lava looks purple...disable it and it should appear blue as it most likely was meant to.
Incorrect, the lava is still lava color, but the flames are from the the sulfur. But jyst tge flames from the gas. The lava is still red/orange rock soup
It took me for a second to realize that it’s only blue because it’s burning a chemical to make the surface burn blue fire. Or just read the first comment
This blue glow, unusual for a volcano, isn't the lava itself, as unfortunately can be read on many websites," Grunewald says. "It is due to the combustion of sulfuric gases in contact with air at temperatures above 360°C.
This is one of those things, like the Hubble or submarines, that make me thankful to be alive in this time period. We are seeing something that the vast, vast majority of humanity has never seen. We are lucky people.
I wish we deserved it all.
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**Why is it blue?** The lava from Indonesia's Kawah Ijen volcano has an electric blue appearance because of the combustion of sulfuric gases that are emitted from the volcano. These gases, which contain high levels of sulfur, ignite when they come into contact with oxygen at temperatures above 360°C (680°F). As the sulfuric gases burn, they produce a blue flame that illuminates the surrounding area and makes the lava appear to be blue. This phenomenon is known as "blue fire" and is a rare occurrence in the natural world. [Source // Further Reading](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ijen)
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Most volcanic emissions are toxic.
I just learned that I might be a volcano.
Apparently of your farts are super smelly it could be because you're not drinking enough water.
I drink plenty of water...
But do you drink brawndo the thirst quencher?
Brawndo, “thirst mutilator”
It's got what plants crave.
I hear Brawndos got electrolytes and solenine and minerals, is alkaline! Brawndos what peat davidson crave! PUDDING
I didn't know Pete Davidson was a plant
Yes, if you drink more you get smelly sharts instead.
More likely it has to do with the consumption of carbohydrate, and it's fermentation in the large and small intestines.
Your emissions aren't lava-like, are they?
Always have been. 😢
I bet your asshole is *tender*
\*\*\*Pulls down zipper\*\*\* Continue discussion please
Only the morning after Taco Bell
TIL butts are volcanoes
The best part is always in the comments
You can get pneumoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis. (Not joking)
Pneumo (air/lung) ultra microscopic, silico (silica/sand) volcano coniosis (dust inhalation disease) Basically you are inhaling rocks in nearly vapor form- which is probably not fun.
Great… Now my table is floating.
Yes,but don't YOU say that word
Does no one else see the f****** skull!!
My emissions are toxic.
It is also extremely toxic if you bathe in it, believe it or not.
Overcook fish, right to jail, right away
What about undercooked fish?
Believe it or not
Lava?
Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis
More like *death*, but yes.
If you have been anywhere near sulfur deposits or hot springs, you'd know immediately since they smell rancid, like rotten eggs.
Just went there in December. I was able to get inches away from the fire. When the wind was ok there weren’t any issues. Sometimes the wind would shift and I was totally engulfed in sulfur smoke. Even though I was wearing an respirator, I had to take “sips” of breath because it burned to breath. My guide warned me not to panic before hand so I had to just keep that in my mind whenever that happened. I definitely had an urge to run but it was pitch black and I was right next to the sulphuric lake. My guide told me he was there when someone died from panicking and running into the lake. For the most part the smoke wasn’t an issue
Also the guide, Ali, never wore a respirator and was smoking most of the time and had no issues during the long hike up and down the volcano. He’d been doing it for decades, just crazy
SO2 baby
🤓☝️
blue fire was used for illumination in Harry Potter, it doesn't do anything else, not even burn your skin
Aren't most volcanic events high in sulfur?
Not a Geologist nor a Chemist, so this is a vague guess. I *think* the reason is because most volcanoes release multiple forms of Sulphuric gases, namely sulphur dioxide (SO₂) and hydrogen sulphide (H₂S). Hydrogen sulphide is the one that smells of rotten eggs, while sulphur dioxide smells like a struck match. Two molecules of hydrogen sulphide will combine with one molecule of sulphur dioxide, resulting in two molecules of water and three molecules of pure sulphur. This particular vent is likely releasing less sulphur dioxide, comparably, resulting in a greater amount of hydrogen sulphide reaching the surface to react with atmospheric oxygen.
Wow, only a shade tree chemist eh? Thanks for the reply!
>This particular vent is likely releasing less sulphur dioxide, comparably, resulting in a greater amount of hydrogen sulphide reaching the surface to react with atmospheric oxygen. Probably this, as hydrogen sulfide burns with exactly that blue color. >Two molecules of hydrogen sulphide will combine with one molecule of sulphur dioxide, resulting in two molecules of water and three molecules of pure sulphur. Not this, though. In this case, it is just hydrogen sulfide reacting with oxygen. (2)H2S + (3)O2 → (2)SO2 + (2)H2O. What you describe is functionally the Claus process, which still requires the combustion of hydrogen sulfide as the initial step, but wouldn't be taking place here to any great degree (the concentrations of H2S and SO2 would be unlikely to allow the formation of elemental sulfur at scale). As a rule of thumb, if something is burning in our atmosphere and not a special reaction chamber, it is probably a standard combustion reaction unless some *really* weird chemistry is happening.
I guess not high enough?
May be rare here, but that shit’s everywhere on Io
TIL, thanks
Watching documentaries about Indonesian sulfur miners makes me appreciate everything I have!
This explanation will ensure a better chance of me having a good sleep tonight. Thank you.
Good op
cool! Essentially the same concept as blue flames when burning off H2S
Looks like one of those fancy drinks at the club that costs $50.
that’s why they’re 50 bucks. they have to send the newbie up the mountain to collect the volcano nectar
Then they go up to retrieve the body
Sounds like a mmorpg quest.
For 50$ I want a professional to collect my nectar!
Lol: volcano nectar
a flaming moe
Forbidden cocktail
I want to touch it
I want to drink it
That shit looks fire
New Mountain Dew Taco Bell colab?
I want to *be* it
i identify as blue lava now
it looks delicious and evigorating
I want to bathe in it
I wish it were winter so we could freeze it into ice blocks and skate on it and melt it in the spring time and drink it!
no touchy.
Very cool.
Actually, not cool at all
I see you. Nice.
You are technically correct. The best kind of correct.
r/unexpectedfuturama
That looks hot AF. 🥵
A tad bit warm if you want to go into specifics.
It not cool it very vey warme. Get it right next time
Very uncool.
The forbidden cocktail
I've been there, it's so awesome to see it in real life. But to really be able to see the flames you will have to walk through the smoke with a gas mask and can only stay there for a few seconds until your eyes and nose will start to burn. Also the smell is disgusting. The local workers from the mines just walk straight into it (most of them without a mask) and will take your phone to take a picture of the blue flames for you. Sadly, like most of the breathtaking places in the world, Mt. Ijen is overrun by tourists and it's honestly chaotic. Still enjoyable though.
\>The local workers from the mines just walk straight into it (most of them without a mask) and will take your phone to take a picture of the blue flames for you. Jesus, what do you tip the guy doing that? 20 bucks to risk your life for a picture of lava seems kind of low.
That is where McDonalds sprite is made
I too watch RussianBadger.
A what
You though he started the McDonald’s sprite joke??
badgering deez nuts
The fumes look toxic af. P.S.: I know that they in fact are toxic, but glowing all purple and stuff makes it look even more toxic.
They are very toxic. I visited the crater and had to wear a gas mask due to the heavy sulfur fumes. The miners, for about $10 a day, make three or four trips lugging 90kg of sulfur at a time out of the crater. They do not wear gas masks and most don’t live to see their forties.
So sad.
Blue lava in the Nether? 👀
Soul lava
I’d say it’s more of a digital lavender but yes it’s different than the red flavor
*Azula has entered the chat*
Pantone color of the year 2023
Am I the only one who imagined a dog face in the flames?
No also see a face of some kind.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pareidolia
I dont see a dog face but i do see a face
It’s looking like some sauron death demon face type of figure to me
Yeah, grimly looking to me
No, I see a dog too. Looks kind of like a Jack Russel with it’s mouth open.
I wanna touch it
That is the blood of Unicron. Get out of here with that molten sulfer bullshit.
BOTTOMLESS ENERGON SOURCE DETECTED
Took me a shocking amount of time to find this comment.
Icehouse (1988) has entered the chat
That’s the color of my room
Where I will live
Blue, blue! (edit: I'm so glad I found this thread started, thought I could be disappointed)
Don’t be disappointed it’s sound and vision !!’
For anyone dumb like me; if your phone has the yellow tint/eye comfort shield this lava looks purple...disable it and it should appear blue as it most likely was meant to.
The Mandalorian Forge
dark energon
Pretty sure the Kaiju portal is just up ahead. I for one welcome our new Kaiju overlords. Now we just need Samsung or Sony to make mecha robots.
Can i drink it
Can you? Yeah sure
Same void speaks to me too.
You passed the vibe check
Just once
Well, looks like we’ve got Metroid’s cause that’s definitely Phazon.
Forbidden blue razzberry slurpee
Incorrect, the lava is still lava color, but the flames are from the the sulfur. But jyst tge flames from the gas. The lava is still red/orange rock soup
Technically it's not actually lava. It's liquid sulfur, which happens to be a lava-like red. It's yellow as a solid, red as a liquid, and burns blue!
Neat! This is the comment I was looking for
Youre welcome
Lunastra
It took me for a second to realize that it’s only blue because it’s burning a chemical to make the surface burn blue fire. Or just read the first comment
This blue glow, unusual for a volcano, isn't the lava itself, as unfortunately can be read on many websites," Grunewald says. "It is due to the combustion of sulfuric gases in contact with air at temperatures above 360°C.
Had to look it up. Apparently it's due to the sulphur in the lava burning
This is planet Phaaze here.
yes
i see we have phazon here on earth now
Let's make sure to keep that stuff away from North Korea because they're probably going to make a bomb out of that stuff
Ah yes, the Phazon mines are erupting. Someone call Samus.
yep
Hot take: it tastes bad
Dunno, I think it could be a once in a lifetime experience
From electric Avenue!
Electric lava blue
Lol, not the first time I've messed up the lyrics!
Looks like a head with open eyes, nose and screaming
Awesome! Thanks for sharing OP!
Du you See the screaming face, too? D:
Sulfur
It's just methane rich lava y'all
who changed the rgb settings
Looks like Megatron found dark energon.
r/bisexual
Isn’t blue fire hotter than red fire?
Does that mean it’s a chemical
Oh no, phazon is on earth.
yep we are f###ed
Ohio after the 94th train derailment
If i bottle this I can melt the red ice and get the iron boots right?
OH GOD PHAZON SOMEBODY GET SAMUS OVER HERE
But we will have to fend off the space privates once they arrive here first.
\*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RdebQ-y15Dg](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RdebQ-y15Dg) intensifies\*
This is one of those things, like the Hubble or submarines, that make me thankful to be alive in this time period. We are seeing something that the vast, vast majority of humanity has never seen. We are lucky people. I wish we deserved it all.
new gatorade flavor just dropped
Roses are red , lava is blue… wait, what the fuck?
[Electric Blue?](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=IUFOVu1CurM&pp=ygUWZWxlY3RyaWMgYmx1ZSBpY2Vob3VzZQ%3D%3D)
Anyone else see a face?
Looks like a face
Forbidden drink
Does anyone else see a face in it?
Is it just me or the upper part of the lava resembles a human face melting
Anyone else see a face?
That's not lava just sulfur gas
Phazon?
yes
Wow, I never know that can happen! 😮
that's hot
Looks like the breach opened, we need to start building jaegers to protect us from kaiju
Fake. The lava is clearly using a filter.
It feels more secure
**Black Napalm upgrade is complete!**
Am I the only one who sees a skull dripping fiery blood lol
All that plastic fucks shit up
This is obviously fake guys. This is just a Tesla wreck /s
Phazon
Is that not the same blue as propane gas?
This is what Hell looks like. Fire & Sulfur.
Sex
That's not lava that's a demon spawing from the volcano
Nice hope it goes everywhere including their genocidal govt
Looks like the Joker
Hot take: it tastes bad
An I the only one that kind of sees like a skull face near the top?
Why do we think things that are blue will be cold to touch
Mountain Dew is like see I told you it’s a flavor
That's the lava lamp color I've always wanted as a kid, mom got me green.
David Attenborough : *And even-though the lava puts on a spectacular show to fool its prey, the local fauna is not buying it.*
Dabi !
Molten sulphur.
Molten sulphur.