What happens if you drink molten lava?

One of the tortures of the Spanish Inquisition was to pour molten lead into various bodily orifices (orifi?) If I had a glass of molten lava, I wouldn't drink it. I'd drop it like a hot rock! read more

Presuming the lava is as hot as delivered from the volcano, in the range of 800 C to 1200 C, you die very quickly. You would start dying, actually, before the lava got close to your mouth. read more

The recent lava flow has been threatening a rural town on the Big Island for months, displacing residents as it slowly approaches. The owners of the at-risk gas station plan to pump out all of the remaining fuel and fill the tanks with water and firefighting foam. read more