Question about magma or molten steel?

Question

This will sound unusual, but I've always wondered: just how hot are molten materials such as lava and steel? I know the sorts of temperatures they reach on the Celsius scale and so forth, of course, but what I really want to know is how warm they feel - could you approach molten steel and be within a few feet, unprotected, without being burned? If I fell in a blast furnace, just how long would I be conscious?

Answer 1

Molten steel is akin to magma, unprotected proximity  can be just 2-3 meter for few seconds.

someone felling in the blast furnace would get vaporise before reaching the bottom of the furnace.

thnks

Answer 2

Chadrack, meeshak and abindigo were in the furnace and survived, you, not so good.

Answer 3

You could probably get pretty close like 10 feet, but on the second one you just going to have to try it out yourself

Answer 4

Being around molten steel is scary.  You can feel the heat from 20 or 30 feet, and it gets very uncomfortable within 10 feet or so of a large quantity of molten steel.  Bare skin will start to burn if you get much closer.  If you fell in you would be vaporized in seconds.  It has happened in steel mills.