So like what do they put in lava lamps

It's like not lava, you know?
I mean like it like looks solid until it like gets all hot and stuff and starts like floating around and like what happens if I open the lava lamp and like take the weird lava stuff out?

the usual ingredients are water, wax and carbon tetrachloride. the carbon tet is mixed with wax to make it just very slightly heavier than water. the heat from the lamp causes a slight expansion of the wax and boosted by convection makes it rise to the top where it will cool and eventually drift back down, again aided by convection. if you open the lamp, the carbon tet will evaporate fairly quickly, leaving the wax to just float on the water forever, the circulation feature will be lost.

See the following site to discover the 'Ingredients' used and the operation of a Lava lamp which is so called because the wax and other ingredients used look similar to a type of real Lava.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lava_lamp

The "lava" is a thick, oily-wax with a very low boiling point. The other liquid is either a light oil, or an alcohol-water mix. You're watching the thick stuff boil in slow motion.

No, it is lava, that's, like, why it's called a lava lamp :) If you put it in water, it totally turns into rock! <3333333333333