ELI5-How can lava exist underwater?

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ELI5-How can lava exist underwater?

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It’s very hot. Of course the water around it will “try” to cool it down, but it will almost immediately vaporize, and leave the lava as liquid as it would be in air. Eventually it will cool down, but that process takes a lot of time.

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