Weird Places: The Glowing Blue Lava at Kawah Ijen

Maybe you ve seen pictures of glowing blue lava flows and dismissed them as Photoshop trickery. Healthy skepticism is good, but there really is a volcano in Indonesia where a unique fluke of chemistry creates an eerie blue glow. Hosted by: Olivia Gordon ---------- Support SciShow by becoming a patron on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/scishow ---------- Dooblydoo thanks go to the following Patreon supporters -- we couldn t make SciShow without them! Shout out to James Harshaw, Kevin Bealer, Mark Terrio-Cameron, Patrick Merrithew, Accalia Elementia, Charles Southerland, Fatima Iqbal, Benny, Kyle Anderson, Tim Curwick, Will and Sonja Marple, Philippe von Bergen, Bryce Daifuku, Chris Peters, Kathy Philip, Patrick D. Ashmore, Charles George, Bader AlGhamdi. ---------- Like SciShow? Want to help support us, and also get things to put on your walls, cover your torso and hold your liquids? Check out our awesome products over at DFTBA Records: http://dftba.com/scishow ---------- Looking for SciShow elsewhere on the internet? Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/scishow Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/scishow Tumblr: http://scishow.tumblr.com Instagram: http://instagram.com/thescishow ---------- Sources: http://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/why-does-indonesian-volcano-burn-bright-blue-180949576/?no-ist http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2014/01/140130-kawah-ijen-blue-flame-volcanoes-sulfur-indonesia-pictures/ http://geology.com/volcanoes/kawah-ijen/ https://www.volcanodiscovery.com/ijen.html http://www.stormchaser.ca/Volcanoes/Kawah_Ijen/Kawah_Ijen.html http://volcano.si.edu/volcano.cfm?vn=263350 http://www.livescience.com/54012-the-terrifying-threat-from-an-acid-lake.html http://www.chm.bris.ac.uk/motm/so2/so2c.htm http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0377027399001584 https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/why-do-certain-elements-c/ http://chemistry.stackexchange.com/questions/4667/why-do-transition-elements-make-colored-compounds http://faculty.sites.uci.edu/chem1l/files/2013/11/RDGVISSpec.pdf