Boiling lava can melt anything, but do you know there is such a liquid that freezes as soon as it comes in contact with lava? That is, despite coming in contact with so much hot lava, a liquid is being converted into a solid, and the name of that liquid is tungsten. Now why does this happen and what is the reason for it, let's try to understand it.
First of all, let us tell you that the temperature of tungsten liquid is 3422°C, which means it melts at 3422°C, whereas the temperature of lava is usually about 700° to 1,250° Celsius, that is, tungsten liquid is about 3 to 5 times hotter than lava.
Tungsten has the highest melting point of any element, which means we can't find a container to hold liquid tungsten, as the container's material will melt before the tungsten does. Now, whenever a hot liquid comes in contact with a cold liquid, it starts cooling itself due to energy exchange, and for this reason, if we dropped tungsten liquid into a lava flow, the lava would freeze the tungsten, that is, tungsten liquid gets converted into a solid material.
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