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What do volcanoes smell like?

It smells. Sulfur is among the easiest detectable substances, and for good reason. The sulfur smell is a good indicator of a potential eruption ? and it can kill well before the lava does. Is lava wet? The rocks over which it flows are technically wet with lava. So yes, technically lava is wet, even though we wouldn't normally use the word "wet" in that way.

Thereof, why is lava hot?

Lava is hot for two primary reasons: Pressure and radiogenic heating make it very hot deep in the Earth (about 100 km down) where rocks melt to make magma. The rock around the magma is a good insulator so the magma doesn't lose much heat on the way to the surface. What does lava taste like? Cool lava is darn close to pottery (ceramics) with hardly any taste. It tastes like a really hot taco, and if you will die of getting frozen, lava will save you but you have to stay in it forever.

Consequently, can you drink lava?

You wouldn't be able to swallow it - lava is molten rock, and as such, is extraordinarily dense and viscous. It will stick to you and cool down to the point of solidification. Can you cook a steak in lava? Molten basalt is used to make synthetic lava flows on various surface types next to the Comstock Art Facility in Syracuse, and now it can apparently be used for cooking steaks, too. According to NPR, chef Sam Bompas teamed up with the Lava Project to create the hottest barbecue in the world.

Keeping this in consideration, can you roast a marshmallow over lava?

According to a tweet from the U.S. Geological Survey in response to a question, even a very long stick won't ensure your safety when roasting marshmallows over lava: "Erm...we're going to have to say no, that's not safe. (Please don't try!) If the vent is emitting a lot of SO2 or H2S, they would taste BAD.