How hot is Minecraft Lava?

This reminds me of my highschool geology classes. We had a fella in our class that really liked minecraft and geology and he once brought a piece of gneiss to class so we could analyse it with the teacher.

dont forget lava + bleu ice + soul soil = bastalt for.. some reason
im not a geologist so im not even going to try to theorize on how that works. im a games design person, i wave my java wand and go "its magic malarky dont think about it" >_<

We have magma in minecraft its a block that i wold like a video on

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Using Minecraft to teach geology
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Shouldn't you technically look into brightest spots of that lava texture? I mean we do the same with human body. We don't take into the account external temperature that is cooled off but air, but the internal temperature. And the brights spots are closest to the internal temperature.

wait so are you saying blue fire isnt cold?

Your videos are so good

Not as hot as your mom

I was actually wondering why irl fire looked orange earlier this week
Amazing video

Okay but how did you get this close to the heating block without sweating even a little?

Just so you know, the planck’s law formula you showed is wrong it is e^(hv/kBT) not h/(ekBT).

I was of the impression that soul fire is blue because it contains sulfur. Sulfur fires are blue and honestly when i first got into Minecraft in 2012 i expected the nether to have blue flames and look like the soul sand valley. The trees are red and blue because those are the colors of the nether. Molten rock is orange/red and burning sulfur is blue. Fire and brimstone.

I noticed that the properties of Mafic Lava match up nicely with the lava in the Nether, forming basalt and flowing more easily than overworld lava.

When you said Black Body Radiation, I just know where you're going. ;⁠-⁠)

You're not only a Geologist, you're also a chemist, astronomer, physicist, coder, gamer, and most importantly, Science Educator. Keep up the Good Work, Gneiss!

I don't mean this as an insult, but I watch these videos to put me to sleep. I think the cadence is a perfect wind down.

Minecraft has no light colour (yet). You only have the texture so that is limited information.

Question: would this also work on nether fog to deduct the average ambient temperature of the nether itself?

This man better be my geology teacher

i think if my highschool earth & space science classes had been as fun to watch as these videos i would have actually passed the class... lol

I absolutely love Nitromethane fire, its just white :D

Strontium Carbonate is pretty

Not as hot as your mom

Okay but how did you do the in-game visuals?

This is actually one of the most amazing channels ever found. The presentation depth and the detail is amazing. I'm a geology student who's probably clocked over 3000 hours in this game. Really really great job.

visible

I feel like the explanation for soul fire (as much as there can be for a game) is chemical. As a rocket guy, when I hear "green fire" my mind immediately goes to TEA-TEB (tri-ethyl borane/tri-ethyl aluminum), which is a liquid that spontaneously combusts on contact with oxygen at room temperature. It's used as a starter in SpaceX's engines, as well as on the SR-71. TEA-TEB fire is more green than in the game, though. The soul fire color more closely matches the color of really nice clean methane combustion like you see on Relativity Aeon 1s or Blue Origin BE-4s.

For the longest time i threw geology off as haha funny rock science but i stumbled across your channel and habe feel in love with geology ❤

I love the lottle fact about aluminium, I thought it was kind of funny to think of aluminium as rare when I've got a cabinet with heaps of it that I've melted from scrap.

Visable?

Very talented, your expertise shines throughout your work

Well if lava can burn anything to nothing within the blink of an eye, it needs to be very hot, like in the billions

I know this is an older video, but does anyone know why the silica content appears to correlate with the temperature of lava irl?

This is a fantastic video, I love the explanation

I dunno it’s pretty hot man

It's awesome that now after taking calculus classes in uni, I finally understand what "integrate to find the area under the curve" means. I've always been really good with math in high school, even going so far as making the highest scores in the history of my high school on the standardized ACT tests, so I really love math and learning it, though I'm a little sad that I never got to understand things like limits, derivatives, integration, and etc. until I made it to college.
Nice video!

Minecraft and science my favourite combination!

A soul still burns.

Minecraft Lava can also form cobblestone, stone or basalt

Hobby metallurgist and chemist here, firstly, I want a pyrometer now. How did I not know this existed? such a cool device! Secondly, it would be nice if you provided temperature values for the hottest and coolest portions of the lava texture. The lava texture (like real lava) has a speckled surface with hotter spots and cooler spots indicating areas that stick out on the surface that are cooler and areas that are more confined and closer to the center and therefore warmer. This means that the "inside" of the lava block (and therefore the average temperature) will be at least as hot as the brightest part of the lava texture, since the inside will be at the maximum temperature, and the outside will be cooler. Perhaps this would warrant changing the official temperature of Minecraft lava? Would appreciate your thoughts on this. Great video nevertheless, you seem very intelligent and down to earth, and as a bonus you like geology and Minecraft, like myself! +1 Subscriber.

This is so interesting

if you think about it, all lava in minecraft is of basaltic type. it flows fast (even faster in the nether), and the nether even has whole basalt biomes with lava
also your spelling of “visable” is wrong. its visible, not visable. your pronunciation of “planck” is also wrong (ik its confusing, got me at first until too i heard the correct pronunciation)

By my estimates, the approximate temperature of Lava is; Hot.

visable light.