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Anonymous Posted 12 years ago
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Semantics Question

Is it acceptable to refer to the interior chamber of a volcano as the volcano's bosom?
  

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If you want to use very flowery language or poetry, yes, but it would not do in scientific or other serious writing.

  • If you want to use very flowery language or poetry, yes, but it would not do in scientific or other serious writing.
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If you want to use very flowery language or poetry, yes, but it would not do in scientific or other serious writing.
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Hi

I daresay people do say that but it sounds a bit odd to me and not really acceptable. The main interior part of a volcano is called the magma chamber ...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Volcano_scheme.svg

Dave

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