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	Why don’t you stick a cork in a volcano? Would that make it erupt elsewhere? Pooki Amsterdam
	That’s a very nice idea but I think in practise that wouldn’t work. Enormous pressures build up in conduits and magma chambers in volcanoes. I think you’d need a very large cork.
	June 2008

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