Not so much "burn" as "cook". Plant material smothered by lava and cut off from oxygen produces methane, which burns with a blue flame once it is exposed to a source of oxygen.
Blue flames glow following the eruption of the Kilauea volcano in Hawaii. Methane gas is produced when lava burns vegetation, which when ignited produces a blue flame https://cnn.it/2KOaH4C pic.twitter.com/wZUQcJEC7p
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Isn’t that the same color flame as produced by burning sulfur dioxide gas?
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As Liberace would say, propane burns bluer, you know… @NatashaABC7pic.twitter.com/0unFnj4ptp
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And as for lava , it's really quite abrasive…pic.twitter.com/quUKOVadhF
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long live American
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Like when people eat roughage...a big methane fast! JK Stay safe Hawaii!!
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Methane fast? What does that do exactly?
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