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Volcanic lava is dangerous for all living things, this is probably everyone understands, but the average citizen does not even suspects how much.
So, in Hawaii, where the Kilauea volcano is now rampant, the beaches covered in countless clusters of amazing golden fibers and threads known as “Pele’s hair.” Despite all their beauty, categorically impossible to contact with them, as they cause in animals, including humans, inflammation, bleeding and other very unpleasant symptoms and diseases up to fatal outcome.
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“Pele Hair” are the finest threads volcanic fiberglass, says Don Swanson – geologist Hawaiian Volcano Observatory. When the lava temperature is about 1160 degrees centigrade splashes, beats a fountain or pours a stream, her the spray quickly stretches and freezes in the wind, and it transfers fiber over a distance of many kilometers. Such fiber brown and golden color, very similar to human hair, which is why they call it that. However, they are very dangerous: imagine that you inhale the tiny fibers of glass. Getting so “natural glass wool “into the water makes it also dangerous for the animal world, since glass chips cause inflammation in all organs, where only penetrates.
Experts have not yet determined whether volcanic fiberglass completely from the lungs and other organs of animals or no, however it is well known that in the past Pele’s hair didn’t suffer from only people, but also livestock. So far, the victims in Hawaii from “Pele’s hair” is not seen …
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However, it is reported that the other day incredibly brittle and sharp threads in huge numbers were thrown onto Hawaiian beaches by the ocean, on the surface of which the “hairs” fell after the eruption. therefore be on the seashore, which has become surprisingly beautiful from this, and at the same time fantastically dangerous, is strictly prohibited.
By the way, this is a natural phenomenon of no relation to the football player Pele does not have, glassy filaments received such a name in honor of Hawaiian goddess of volcanoes and fire Pele.
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