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You'd have to use the volume of earth, not the mass. Google tells me that lava is ~3x denser than water.
by arrowleaf 2y ago
You'd have to use the volume of earth, not the mass. Google tells me that lava is ~3x denser than water.
- rachofsunshine 2y agoLava is not really representative of the Earth as a whole, as it turns out. The mantle (which is the vast majority of Earth's volume) isn't a liquid, it's a squishy deformable solid. Magma that comes from the mantle is only liquid because of the removal of pressure or the addition of water; it wasn't liquid down there. And a lot of lava comes from crustal melting, not mantle material. Earth as a whole has a density about 5.5x that of water.