- Ooh! Oh, that's awesome. - Why would you ruin
your tire like that?
♪ (upbeat techno intro) ♪
♪ (suspenseful music) ♪
- iPhone. (laughs) That's epic.
- Are they actually going to lava the phone?
Please don't lava the phone. - This is a waste of a phone
if it's about to go into lava. I'd be so sad.
- Oh, okay. So, they're making lava, creating lava.
- It's basically going to just consume the phone.
I mean, the thing's gonna melt at that temperature.
- Oh, man! Look at-- (loud pop)
- Oh! - Oh, it explode--
Oh, 'cause of the battery! Yes! Oh, that poor phone. (laughs)
- I felt like that would happen logistically,
but I wasn't expecting it when it did come.
- It's like the Nickelodeon logo. That's orange it is. (laughs)
- I love when they do the slow motion, up close version
'cause then you can really see what's happening.
- If it had been a natural lava flow,
we probably wouldn't have been able to see that explosion
just because it would've been engulfed by the lava itself.
Because this is such a small amount,
you get that really exciting explosion.
Oh, that's awesome.
- Oh! Oh! - Just immediately in all areas
that it hit it. - Oh, w-- oh, wow.
I don't know why I thought it was gonna be really sick
and just straight go through all of them,
but it just really said, "Absolutely not."
- I just wanna do that. Can I just do that for fun?
It's just the heat is too much. It breaks.
You know, the integrity of the glass is compromised,
and boom! I love it.
♪ (soft upbeat music) ♪ - Fire-resistant glass.
It's not lava-resistant glass. (laughs)
- Or maybe it'll shatter in a different way.
Oh! No way! - (gasps) It's melting it.
- Oh, it's starting to warp. Look at that. It's deforming.
It's deforming. - And it's just stretching it. Oh.
(sizzling) - I feel like it's defying
all scientific law. - The lava farted. (laughs)
That's what it looks like. - (laughs) There we go.
There we go. Finally. All right. It happened.
'Cause I was worried the lava was gonna cool too fast
and we wouldn't see anything other than this.
- But a bullet? No. It's definitely gonna break it.
- I don't think it's gonna be as my homegirl fireproof.
- Oh, it's pretty thicc. Ooh. That's thicc with two Cs.
(laughs) I don't know too much
about the composition of bulletproof glass,
but I bet the lava will win.
- But that's already way thicker glass.
I just think this one might be more susceptible
to actually breaking. - Oh, wow.
Oh. - Oh, there it goes.
So, it's changing the state of the glass from a solid to a liquid.
- Hey, that's still pretty good, though.
It seems like that didn't even crack the bottom layer.
It's just the top. - It actually did better
than the fireproof glass. - Yeah.
I think if he had poured a bigger amount, a larger quantity,
it would've gone all the way through. - It reminds me of Ice Age
when Scrat is falling in the crack. (laughs)
Is this Stretch Armstrong? Yeah. (laughs)
How'd he get him to sit up like that?
- Oh. Lava is silver? - But that's not typical lava.
That just has to be molten metal. See, I would actually be
much more interested in this if it was a molten rock,
because that molten metal effect, it's sliding off of him.
It's very low viscosity, so because of the low viscosity,
it's just whoop, going off that creepy plastic.
- I'm actually surprised the doll didn't melt honestly.
- It just slides off of him at first. It doesn't even actually touch him.
- I wouldn't wanna give my kid this to play with because if the thing
can repel something that hot? (laughs)
- Slime? - Probably just gonna melt it
into a liquid. - Ooh. This is where
the intrigue comes in. - Oh, he's got rock. Okay, good.
Good, good, good. Because, you know,
rock melts at different temperatures depending on the minerals
that are in the rock. So, we've got one here
that should melt at a reasonable temperature, yeah.
- Dang, you could tell he's been using that thing too.
Look at that. Wow.
- See, these people need to be friends with me.
We could just hang out and play with lava all day. (laughs)
- Holy [censored]. Look how bright that is.
I feel like if you could just drop that on top of there,
that'd be interesting enough. - Oh my gosh.
It sat on it for a while. - It's very satisfying to watch.
- I mean, that's boiling. You just have a rapid expansion
of gas and-- oh, he poured water on it.
Now you see steam. So, the water flashes to steam
because of the heat. You've basically made a geyser.
- Wow. This really goes to show you too, like,
dude, man, you could make money doing anything.
(laughs) This guy was in his backyard, just like, "I've got a few things
I could just burn, put it on TikTok or YouTube."
- Why would you ruin your tire like that?
- He's gonna drive over? Oh, this is innovative right here.
- Oh, instant tire pop.
No? - In all those supernatural movies
when they have to cross by the volcano
is dramatic because that truck is fine!
- These are really small quantities, so you're just gonna have
that momentary bit of fire. But tires are pretty heat resistant,
so you'd have to leave the tire sitting there for it to take,
you know, significant damage. - That's like what you'd see
a tire mark make in a cartoon or something.
It's so perfect. - Oh, obsidian.
Minecraft. (chuckles) - Volcanic glass? I don't know.
I'd have to look at it a little more closely.
It looks obsidian-ish, but it may be what we call
a transition mineral. So, it's like something
that's approaching true obsidian, but it may not be true obsidian.
- Go before it's not orange anymore! - Is that drywall?
- Whoa. It's kind of cool watching the flames hug the press, though.
- (man) Whoa! - This camera guy's really excited.
- You get a different appreciation when you got
the other guy's reaction too.
- It's just squishing it out the sides.
Just imagine it as the Play-Doh from hell.
- It completely moved out of the way. That's interesting.
- I can't even imagine studying lava as your career.
That just seems so entertaining and cool.
- It like fuses with it. - (man) ...that got smashed
under the hydraulic press into this tiny sheet here.
- So, basically, lavas do get a glassy rind
in a lot of instances. Because that's exposed to the air,
it's cooling more rapidly than the stuff that's inside the flow.
- Ooh. This one's set up to be satisfying.
- See, now, this is just gonna melt through.
You're gonna have a nice, hot glass of water after this.
- So, if lava erupts under ice, it actually-- ah, that's so cool.
It creates a special kind of lava called hyaloclastite,
and we see it a lot in Iceland because it changes the characteristics
of the lava rock as it solidifies.
(low whine) - (laughs)
(imitates whine) - Oh my gosh.
I would totally think that the lava would just melt right through it.
- How is the ice still holding its own, though?
Maybe I spoke too soon. - That is not at all
what I expected this to look like this far in.
Oh, look at it bubble. Oh, that's extra satisfying.
- What they should do is put the ice on top of the lava.
Even though the underside of it is gonna be cool,
it's not gonna have a super smooth texture.
It'll look a little different. It'd be chunkier.
- I thought it was gonna melt through it completely
and there was gonna be a puddle, but the ice said--
fighting back this time.
- Thanks for watching. - Which lava experiment
was your favorite? - Comment down below
and make sure to subscribe. - Bye.
Come on. Melt it. Melt it. Break the glass!
I mean, you don't go into volcanology
if you don't like seeing things explode. (laughs)