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What is The difference between magma and lava is?

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Magma and lava are both molten (liquid) rock, but magma is molten rock produced underneath earth's surface and lava is the magma that was produced that is flowing onto earth's surface.

Magma is a molten material found beneath earth's crust that forms minerals with large crystals when it cools slowly and forms minerals with small crystals when it cools rapidly. Lava is on the outside of the volcano and when it cools it forms extrusive igneous rock that are fine grained. When magma on the inside of a volcano cools, this rock is called intrusive igneous rock are coarse grained. Both rocks can look similar but some extrusive igneous rocks like obsidian can have a glassy and smooth texture.

lava is what comes out of a volcano

magma is what is inside the volcano
Lava is hot molten rock that erupted from volcano Magma is hot material below earths crust, from which lava is formed So the basic difference is just that lava is hot molten rock that already erupted; while magma is what is inside earth' s crust

Magma is a substance in the mantle, under the earth's crust, where lava is that same substance but outside the earth's crust.

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Lava is erupted magma that has reached the surface. Magma would exist in the volcanic pipe and magma chamber. Lava appears outside the volcanic structure.

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