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Letter: Letters: Not so hot

Published 10 October 1992

From C. P. HAYES

May I draw your attention to an error in This Week, 5 September? The
caption to the colour photograph of Mount St Helens should read: ‘Molten
lava has a temperature of about 1000 °C,’ (not 10 000 °C) ‘ . .
. but this falls to around 50 °C at the solid surface’.

C. P. Hayes Dartford, Kent

Issue no. 1842 published 10 October 1992

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