The eruption produced pyroclastic flows – a mixture of hot gas, lava and other volcanic material – that traveled up to two kilometers from the volcano’s crater.
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Pyroclastic
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10 translations across 10 languages.
Catalan
1 entries- piroclàstic adj (composed of volcanic rock fragments)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 火山碎屑 adj (composed of volcanic rock fragments)
Finnish
1 entries- tuliperäinen adj (composed of volcanic rock fragments)
French
1 entries- pyroclastique adj (composed of volcanic rock fragments)
Galician
1 entries- piroclástico adj (composed of volcanic rock fragments)
German
1 entries- pyroklastisch adj (composed of volcanic rock fragments)
Irish
1 entries- pireaclastach adj (composed of volcanic rock fragments)
Italian
1 entries- piroclastico adj (composed of volcanic rock fragments)
Polish
1 entries- piroklastyczny adj (composed of volcanic rock fragments)
Spanish
1 entries- piroclástico adj (composed of volcanic rock fragments)
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Mount Merapi, Indonesia’s most active volcano, erupted Monday, sending plumes of ash into the air and pyroclastic flows down its slopes for a second straight day.
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The word "ash" is not a very good one to include all the mechanical accompaniments of a subaerial or subaqueous eruption, since ash seems to be restricted to a fine powder, the residuum of combustion. A word is wanting to express all such accompaniments, no matter what their size or condition may be, when they are accumulated in such mass as to form beds of "rock." We might call them perhaps "pyroclastic materials," ...
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Within sixty seconds, the entire area was razed by pyroclastic material with a temperature of nearly two thousand degrees Fahrenheit.
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