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[[Person A approaches Person B with a rock in his hand.]]
A: Check it out - I got a piece of a meteor!
B:
Actually
, it's only called that while falling. Once it lands, it's called
magma
.
My Hobby: mixing pedantic terms
{{Title text: No, only LAVA is called 'magma' while underground. Any other object underground is called 'lava'.}}
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