History Main / ConvectionSchmonvection

* ''Series/BlakesSeven''.
** Averted in "City at the Edge of the World". Avon points out that firing a laser cannon at point-blank range would kill the firer with the reflected heat and energy. The VillainOfTheWeek is [[TooDumbToLive crazy enough to do it anyway]].

* In ''WebComic/YokokasQuest'', when Yokoka enters a volcano to visit Yang's shop she walks dangerously close (and barefoot) to lava, and suffers no physical harm.

* During the events of ''ComicBook/AbsoluteCarnage,'' Sleeper slobbers napalm all over Hybrid for Hawkeye to ignite. Both Dylan and Sleeper dramatically watch the symbiote burst into flames from a few feet away until there's nothing left but a hole in the grown. In truth, both of them should have been burnt to a crisp, as napalm burns at a temperature of 2,760 degrees Celcius or 5,000 degrees Fahrenheit, about half as hot as the surface of the sun.

* In Disney's version of ''Disney/ThePrincessAndTheFrog'', we have a scene where Tiana and Naveen as frogs are sitting on the edge of a bathtub. The bathtub is sitting in a fire and being used to cook gumbo, which is boiling hot. But, hey, an inch away sitting on bare metal, what's the problem?

* In ''WesternAnimation/InsideOut'', during their trip through Imagination Land, Joy, Sadness and Bing Bong cross a stream of (imaginary) lava by using floating pieces of furniture as stepping stones.

[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convection Convection,]] [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convective_heat_transfer the process by which a liquid or gas (like air) forms currents that very quickly spread heat from a hot thing to its environment,]] does not exist in TV land. [[WordSchmord Convection,]][[TitleDrop schmonvection]] — as long as you don't touch the lava, you're okay. Note that this trope covers heat ''radiation'' as well (but [[JustForFun/LousyAlternateTitles Radiation Schmadiation]] would sound like ILoveNuclearPower...), and seeing as large explosions create shockwaves as well as fireballs, this also covers Overpressure? What Overpressure?. TV also ignores the other hazards of volcanoes and lava flows, such as [[DeadlyGas toxic gases]] and [[OminousFog blinding, choking ash]].

[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convection Convection,]] [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convective_heat_transfer the process by which a liquid or gas (like air) forms currents that very quickly spread heat from a hot thing to its environment,]] does not exist in TV land. [[WordSchmord Convection, schmonvection]] — as long as you don't touch the lava, you're okay. Note that this trope covers heat ''radiation'' as well (but [[JustForFun/LousyAlternateTitles Radiation Schmadiation]] would sound like ILoveNuclearPower...), and seeing as large explosions create shockwaves as well as fireballs, this also covers Overpressure? What Overpressure?. TV also ignores the other hazards of volcanoes and lava flows, such as [[DeadlyGas toxic gases]] and [[OminousFog blinding, choking ash]].

* ''Disney/FrozenII'': Anna wields an ice sword created for her by Elsa. Thing is, [[https://i.redd.it/sgm9fpd85ho31.png she's holding it without any gloves]], which should make the sword incredibly difficult to hold. Then again, considering Anna has [[https://i0.wp.com/www.caps.media/201/3-frozenbr/full/frozen-disneyscreencaps.com-9888.jpg?strip=all literally frozen over completely]] and then been thawed out by Elsa, combined with lingering damage from the first time Elsa accidentally froze her, Anna's biology might have changed.

* Despite breaking many scientific rules, ''Film/TheCore'' actually averted this nicely. One crewman had to step outside safe area of the ship, never touched lava, and still burned to death. He '''was''' wearing a protective suit -- which is the only reason he could even open the door without immediately bursting into flame while simultaneously imploding from the intense heat and pressure. Previously they had to use liquid nitrogen, the ship's coolant, to exit the ship without bursting into flames. The crew is notably sweating through the rest of the movie, even while in the ship.

* A similar event in the Creator/SylvesterStallone movie ''Film/DemolitionMan'' in which the villain holds a blowtorch mere inches away from a floor which is covered in diesel. Never mind that the fumes coming from it would have surely caught fire instantly, as long as the naked flame doesn't touch the liquid itself it's fine.

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''WesternAnimation/ToyStory3'' did this during the scene at the incinerator when the toys are about to burn in the fire. They were close to touching the fire, but they didn’t melt, despite being made of plastic. This is probably for the better though, as it would be disturbing to see the characters melt in fire.

%%* ''WesternAnimation/ToyStory3''. [[TearJerker Not that we're complaining.]]

* The plot [[ExcusePlot (such as it was)]] of the now-discontinued ''Ride/BackToTheFutureTheRide'' at Universal Studios Hollywood involved the guests using Doc Brown's flying TimeMachine to chase Biff (who had stolen the more familiar [=DeLorean=]) through several time periods, cumulating in a prehistoric era with a river of lava and a lava-waterfall; Biff [[DirtyCoward is panicked by the sight of it]], but unharmed.

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* In ''Podcast/TheAdventureZoneBalance'', the party survives a fireball powerful enough to reduce a few square miles to ''glass'' by hiding in a well a few dozen feet deep.
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-> ''"Fire--as long as you're not directly touching it, it can't hurt you."''

[[MagmaMan Lava]], that primal force and essence of destruction, is ''really, '''really''' hot'' -- between 700°C and 1,200°C hot (or between 1,300°F and 2,200°F).

[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convection Convection,]] [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convective_heat_transfer the process by which a liquid or gas (like air) forms currents that very quickly spread heat from a hot thing to its environment,]] does not exist in TV land. [[WordSchmord Convection, schmonvection]] -- as long as you don't touch the lava, you're okay. Note that this trope covers heat ''radiation'' as well (but [[JustForFun/LousyAlternateTitles Radiation Schmadiation]] would sound like ILoveNuclearPower...), and seeing as large explosions create shockwaves as well as fireballs, this also covers Overpressure? What Overpressure?. TV also ignores the other hazards of volcanoes and lava flows, such as [[DeadlyGas toxic gases]] and [[OminousFog blinding, choking ash]].

Lava is also rarely found just calmly lying around -- when it slows, it has time to cool and harden. If it's been liquid for any appreciable length of time, it will probably [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IAxj2ob_JoU look like this.]] This is a subtrope of ArtisticLicensePhysics.

Occasionally you may see the visual effects of convection in the form of distortion of heated air -- which will still be safe to be near, as long as you don't touch the magma itself.

* [[ConvectionSchmonvection.AnimeAndManga Anime and Manga]]
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* The {{Film/Sharknado}} films have been well-known for giving the middle finger to the laws of physics. A rather amusing example is in ''Film/SharknadoThe4thAwakens'', when one of the sharknados becomes a Nukenado. The heroes go to fight it and, naturally, aren't cooked from the inside.
* ''Franchise/StarWars'':
** In order for a plasma blade to cut through metal with no resistance, it would have to be a few ''million'' degrees, which would be enough to burn someone to ash within seconds of activating a lightsaber. Though supplemental materials mention that a lightsaber's plasma is held in place by a force field that prevents anyone or anything from being burned by the blade unless direct contact is made (and if a lightsaber blade does emanate heat, that means it was improperly constructed).
** In ''Star Wars Episode I: Film/ThePhantomMenace'', Qui-Gon Jinn tries to melt through a blast door with his lightsaber; he's standing next to it at the time, with his hands inches away from molten metal, but he doesn't even get singed. Force-based protection from heat seems as reasonable an explanation as any.
** In ''Star Wars Episode III: Film/RevengeOfTheSith'' the final battle between Obi-Wan and Anakin takes place on a molten planet. We see that the station they are fighting on requires special shielding from the molten lava surrounding it, and when this shield is disabled the station rapidly begins to disintegrate, averting this trope. Also at the end of the fight, Anakin bursts into flames on the shore of a lava river despite never touching the actual lava. On the other, there are multiple instances throughout the fight when Obi-Wan and Anakin fight above or near unshielded lava with no ill effects, leaving this a {{Zigzagged|Trope}} trope. Maybe they just [[HandWave used the Force]] to shield themselves.
* On the other end of the spectrum, the disaster movie ''Film/TheDayAfterTomorrow'', among other examples of terrible, terrible science featured a scene where a main character runs down a hallway where the temperature is dropping so fast that moisture in the air turns to ice on the walls in less than a second. Despite the fact that he's only wearing normal clothes and a coat, our hero seems to be in no danger as long as he doesn't let the rapidly forming ice catch him -- the air a few feet in front of the death zone is only somewhat chilly (and moving slower than a running human). He also manages to hold back the cold entirely by entering a room with a fireplace and shutting the door, but that's a different issue.

* Used in [[TheFilmOfTheBook the movie version]] of ''Literature/TheLordOfTheRings: The Return of the King'', in which two barefoot hobbits were able to walk on the rock of an erupting volcano, only a few feet from the flowing lava on either side. However, the soles on Hobbit feet are about as leathery as shoes (and in theory the rock they were walking on hadn't had time to heat up yet--rock's a pretty bad conductor). When Gollum and The One Ring fall into the Crack of Doom, neither show any signs of burning even when Gollum gets completely submerged.
* It's also present in ''Film/TheHobbitTheDesolationOfSmaug''. In a scene that was not in the book, Thorin and the Company attempt to kill Smaug by flooding him with liquid gold from a Dwarven furnace (it doesn't work). There is a chase sequence where Thorin and Bilbo lay down on metal shields to [[LavaSurfing surf the river of molten gold]] that erupts from the furnace, with no ill effects whatsoever. Never mind that they should have been fried almost instantly --laying metal down over a source of heat ''is how skillets and frying pans work''-- and that gold has a considerably higher melting point than steel. Plus, there are several times when the heroes take cover in some way from Smaug's fire breath, and are completely OK being mere feet (or even inches) away from a massive inferno. They must have [[TableTopGame/DungeonsAndDragons Improved Evasion]].
* Averted in ''Film/Terminator2JudgmentDay'' during the final chase scene when Sarah Connor declares that it is "too hot" to approach [[NoOSHACompliance the open pit of molten metal]]. Also when Ah-nuld is lowered into the steel, his boot and pants catch fire a full foot above the metal.
* A similar event in the Creator/SylvesterStallone movie ''Film/DemolitionMan'' in which the villain holds a blowtorch mere inches away from a floor which is covered in diesel. Never mind that the fumes coming from it would have surely caught fire instantly, as long as the naked flame doesn't touch the liquid itself it's fine.

* ''Film/{{Volcano}}'' is a repeat offender;
** After blocking a lava flow with concrete barriers, the fire fighters lean over the top of them, laughing.
** In the same scene, the protagonists have to rescue an unconscious fireman stuck at the far end of a fire truck's ladder. Apparently convection from a precarious position ''is'' enough to make metal melt and bend, and clothes ignite, but if you make it to solid ground you're safe even if you're ''closer'' to the lava now than you were while up on the ladder. To be fair, being ''above'' the lava would put both ladder and fireman directly in the rising column of heat, while being ''next to'' the lava wouldn't.
** The scene in the subway is an utter howler; a man is able to move around in a train car so hot it's actually ''melting'' all around him, making it so hot all the "survivors" he's rescuing would have been incinerated. Then came the part where the brave man heroically ''jumps into lava'', stupidly ''remaining conscious'' and throwing another grown adult clear of it, and then stupidly melting. And it was stupid, did we mention that?
** Also, the scene with the barriers ends with aerial drops of water onto the pool of lava to solidify it. The resulting clouds of superheated steam which engulfed everyone nearby ''should'' have scalded them all to death, but they safely (if stupidly) emerged unhurt.
* ''When Time Ran Out'' is about a volcanic eruption that imperils vacationers in a Hawaiian resort. The characters often come implausibly close to the lava, including a daring lava-pit rescue by Burgess Meredith (as a retired high-wire artist).
* The scene in ''Film/IndianaJonesAndTheTempleOfDoom'' where Willie (the woman) was raised and lowered in an iron cage. She was lowered so close to the molten rock that she should have burst into flames. Just in case the whole "beating heart" thing wasn't [[strike: stupid]] awesome enough...
** The poor sap who gets lowered before her ''does'' burst into flames.
** The {{novelization}} goes into full detail of how excruciating the experience was for poor Willie. At one point it even explicitly says that her eyelashes singe and her dress starts smoking, and she eventually passes out from the high temperature.

* ''Film/JourneyToTheCenterOfTheEarth''. The explorers are carried up the tube of a volcano by lava on an asbestos dish in the 1959 movie and a dinosaur skull in the 2008 one -- which in real life would get them cooked alive.
* The ending to ''[[Film/TheReturnOfGodzilla Godzilla 1985]]'' has the monster being trapped in a volcano. Not surprisingly, he's not affected at all by either the lava itself or any of the intense heat. He ''is'' Godzilla.

* In ''Film/DangerDiabolik'', most famous for being the subject of the final episode of ''Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000'', the eponymous character dons a protective suit near the end to keep him safe as he melts down a large bar of gold. He claims that in such a suit he could swim through the sun (though he doesn't say so, he presumably means he could survive the ordeal as well). While this itself is fairly stupid, one has to take notice that there is a noticeable gap between the bottom of the visor and his helmet, as if he didn't shut it properly. Although this does not appear to present a problem when he is later sprayed with molten gold and survives.

* In ''Film/SpiderMan2'', Doctor Octopus builds what is effectively a miniature sun. Characters standing a few feet away show no signs of feeling the heat. Later he sinks it, and there's not even a whiff of steam.
* In ''Film/TheSaint1997'', a fusion reaction is contained in a '''glass jar'''. ''Stars'' are powered by fusion reactions. Stars in general are not known for their utter lack of heat. Note that was cold fusion, which doesn't actually "work" but that's how you're supposed to do it in real life: Electrodes in a glass jar.
* The infamous Film/SyFyChannelOriginalMovie ''Raptor Island'' features a scene where the female lead runs across a tree over a river of lava.
** It's also a good thing air doesn't conduct heat-- at least in that movie, apparently, since that's the meaning of "convection." (Also there's heat-radiation).

%%* The entire ending of ''Film/{{Congo}}''.
* ''Film/WrathOfTheTitans'' features Cronos, a mountain-sized man made of molten rock that apparently does not give off any heat. Notably, in the climax Perseus [[spoiler:flies Pegasus down his throat]] and gets slightly singed for his trouble.
* At one point in ''Film/JackTheGiantSlayer'' Elmont is rolled in raw dough and placed in an oven to be cooked as an hors d'oeuvre. When he frees himself a few minutes later, he's not even sweating, despite the fact that the dough he was inside visibly cooked while he was freeing himself.

* In ''Film/AfterEarth'' Kitai is able to stand outside in an ash cloud, without a breathing apparatus. In Real Life Volcanic ash particles turn to cement when they are inhaled, causing rapid suffocation. Furthermore, Kitai takes refuge in a cave with a ledge overlooking an active lava flow and is no worse for wear, and ''lights a campfire'' to make it cozier. Later on, after nearly freezing to death in the wilderness, he runs and jumps up the side of an active volcano, coming within feet of large cracks that glow with the heat of the lava.
* ''Film/PacificRim'': On Striker Eureka's blueprints there's mention of the "Sting-Blades" channeling thermal energy, but it's unknown if it's this or outright case of KillItWithFire. This is averted in the FinalBattle, where [[spoiler:Gipsy Danger shoves a {{Kaiju}}'s head into a volcanic vent and roasts its face in an attempt to kill it]].
* Subverted in ''Film/TheChroniclesOfRiddick'', where there is a planet whose entire landscape gets recreated daily by a cloud of super-hot air and accompanying lava roaming over it, caused by being so close to the local star. Riddick and a few others make for escape but nearly get burned to a crisp by the sunlight. Later a character walks into the cloud and gets burned to pieces (literally). Riddick only survives in a hangar which is obviously made to survive the phenomenon, including cooling.
* In the finale of ''Film/{{Species}}'', when the tar-filled pit catches fire, the temperature in the cavern should have been unbearable. However, the characters don't respond to this fact.
* In ''Film/IronMan2'', Whiplash manages to get Iron Man tangled in whips hot enough to melt through his armor. Even after having several entire sections of the armor torn away, several more rendered molten inches away from his skin, and then ''wrapping himself in said whips'' to get close and end the fight, Tony doesn't have any burns on his body at all. It's slightly justified because Tony was wearing a fire-resistant racing suit underneath his armor.
* Taken to patently absurd degrees in ''Film/JurassicWorldFallenKingdom''. At one point, Owen's body is mere ''inches'' away from lava and is somehow completely fine. It's even worse with the baryonyx that attacks Claire and Franklin, who takes a splash of lava ''to the face,'' and only ''flinches.''
* Averted in ''Film/SkyHigh2005''. While the main group is [[AirVentPassageway escaping through a ventilation duct]], they ask Warren if he can use his fire powers to light the way, to which he responds “only if you want to be barbecued”.
* In ''Film/RobinHood2018'', Robin and Gisborne [[OutrunTheFireball outrun a cascade of molten iron]] from an overturned crucible, despite the fact the heat should have barbecued them where they stood.
* ''{{Film/Dragonslayer}}'': Galen uses a dragon-scale shield to protect himself from the dragon's flames, despite them going past it and around him, never mind the heat this should generate as well.

* ''Literature/JourneyToTheCenterOfTheEarth''. The explorers are carried up the tube of a volcano by lava on their raft of fossilized wood (an asbestos dish in the 1959 movie, a dinosaur skull in the 2008 one) which in real life would get them cooked alive (Axel notes the temperature rises to 70°C). Some editions avoid this by having them be carried up by water (which was the case for the first part of the ascent), the implication being that lava below is caused a geyser-effect to blow them out of the volcano.

* Averted in ''Film/SkyHigh''. While the main group is escaping through a ventilation duct, they ask Warren if he can use his fire powers to light the way, to which he responds “only if you want to be barbecued”.

* ''Film/JourneyToTheCenterOfTheEarth. The explorers are carried up the tube of a volcano by lava on an asbestos dish in the 1959 movie and a dinosaur skull in the 2008 one -- which in real life would get them cooked alive.

** ''GodzillaAndMothraTheBattleForEarth'' had Godzilla and Larva Battra open a fissure on the ocean floor during their fight and plunge into the Earth's mantle for a good part of the film. Godzilla emerges from a volcano unscathed and angry, Battra is also fine but how he got out isn't shown.

* ''Series/GameOfThrones'': This applies to both sides of the "ice and fire" theme of the series. Dragonfire works similarly to firebending from ''Avatar: The Last Airbender'' in that characters generally will not experience burns as long as they do not directly touch the flames. [[spoiler: This gets especially ridiculous in the season 7 episode "The Spoils of War," in which Bronn and Jamie avoid the massive column of fire Drogon produces by inches and come out of it unscathed.]] Similarly, the White Walkers are cold enough to instantly extinguish any fire that comes withing a few meters of them and have blades so cold that steel shatters upon contact, yet somehow the characters avoid instant frostbite when in their presence.
* ''Series/OurMissBrooks'': In "Public Property on Parade", nobody so much as breaks a sweat when standing next to Madison High School's coal fired boiler.
* The ''Series/DoctorWho'':
** "Pond Life" mini-episodes preceding Series 7 feature the Doctor surfing a lava flow using nothing but a surfboard. However, this is ostensibly PlayedForLaughs due to the Doctor's rather off-hand over-the-phone comments about it.
** Played straight on the episode "The End of the World". Solar heat is shown to be a terribly lethal thing to let through, with special sun visors to block it out. But when the visors come down, the victims have plenty of time to scream and DUCK to avoid them (with mixed success, depending on the room and whether the Doctor is nearby). The walls seem to stand up to the energy reasonably well, too.
* Subverted on ''Series/MacGyver1985''. In the episode "Flame's End", the villain has [[DeathTrap locked him and a companion in a room]] at a nuclear power plant and he plans to flood it with the reactor's coolant water. Mac's companion points out that convection alone is going to kill them long before they have a chance to drown, scald, or be irradiated to death.
* In the ''Series/StarTrekVoyager'' episode "Basics, part II", the "don't touch the lava" rule is very much in effect when, during an evacuation from a volcanic eruption, Chakotay rescues an alien girl who's somehow gotten herself stranded on a piece of rock.
* Surprisingly averted in the ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'' episode "Civil Defense". Sisko and O'Brien had to crawl through a cramped, metal tube surrounded by [[TechnicolorFire green fire]], and they even wrapped their hands in cloth. O'Brien passed out from the heat.
* The ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'' series finale includes a scene where [[TheOmnipotent Q]] takes Picard back to primeval Earth. There are flaming pools of lava all around them, but Picard doesn't even seem to sweat. Then again, this is [[RealityWarper Q]]; any episode he's in is bound to violate the laws of physics at least a few times over. This is supposedly the time and place where ''life on Earth'' first evolved. There shouldn't even be oxygen.
* In an episode of the original ''Series/KnightRider'', the car runs over a lava spillage not once, but ''twice''. The tires are a little melted, but the Magical Impregnable Alloy protecting KITT is just a little dirty.
* ''Series/{{Mythbusters}}'' once tested firewalking over charcoal. The build team found out that coal is actually a decent insulator; the top being much cooler than the underside, and that the proper technique is a casual walk. This is because when running, more weight is concentrated on less area, causing a person's feet to dig into the coals; potentially causing severe burns. [[ButtMonkey Adam]] found that out [[AgonyOfTheFeet the hard way]]. It's a favorite trick of "life coaches" to demonstrate firewalking over wood or charcoal. Ask them to repeat the feat with a comparatively ''cooler'' metal plate.\\
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On a similar note, the Mythbusters have demonstrated that it's perfectly possible to (very briefly) dip your fingers into molten lead, if you dip them in water beforehand. The layer of water coating your skin evaporates the moment it makes contact, and water vapor is yet another excellent insulator.
* ''Series/{{Eureka}}'':
** An episode deals with a miniature sun springing into being over the title city, creating an unending, superhot day. It keeps growing and getting hotter until it collapses a silo, melts the tires on a Jeep and fries the circuitry on a rocket. No people suffer any ill effects worse than sweating, and the idea that a small sun might cause a fire in the forest it's hovering over is never even mentioned.
** Another episode features a giant artificially created pocket of magma somewhere under the city, which could pop up anywhere unless Carter diverts it into the nearby lake. Having done so, the lava spurts out of the tunnel he made and into the lake... while Carter stands right next to it, making his usual pithy comment.

* In the ''Series/{{Sanctuary}}'' episode "Pax Romana", two characters in insulation suits (which leave much of the head and hands exposed) leisurely execute a medical procedure surrounded by molten rock a few meters below. There's a dramatic close call where one of them falls extremely close to the lava. Sadly, her hair fails to start smoking.

* On an episode of ''Series/{{Smallville}}'', Clark saves his rival Whitney from a fireball by covering his back with his body. We actually see the fireball engulfing Whitney's uncovered front, and we are shown that the blast super-heats Clark's body to the point that his father is burned just by touching him, but Whitney is fine. Their clothes are also undamaged.
* In the second episode of ''Series/PowerRangersOperationOverdrive'', Moltor holds Andrew Hartford over a river of lava, in an attempt to get the [[MacGuffin Corona Aurora]]. Andrew suffers no ill effects from being so close to the lava.
** And in episode 15 of [[Series/GoGoSentaiBoukenger GoGo Sentai Boukenger]] [=GoGo=] Jet is flown right into a volcano and someone dangled down to pick up a crystal that's floating in the lava.
* ''Series/BlakesSeven''.
** Averted in "City At The Edge Of The World". Avon points out that firing a laser cannon at point-blank range would kill the firer with the reflected heat and energy. The VillainOfTheWeek is [[TooDumbToLive crazy enough to do it anyway]].
** Also the Liberator [[NotWithTheSafetyOnYouWont can't fire its own neutron blasters without a flare shield being put up first]] to prevent this.

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* ''Film/JourneyToTheCenterOfTheEarth in 3-D''.

* ''Literature/JourneyToTheCenterOfTheEarth''. The protagonists are lifted out of HollowEarth by riding up an erupting lava tube on a raft of fossilised wood (it's even more silly in the 1959 movie where they're using a large metal altar dish).

* Averted in ''[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/6940744/1/A-Teacher-s-Glory A Teacher's Glory]]. Sasuke extinguishes the fire on his sword after a fight, re-sheathes it, and promptly sets his sheath on fire. Later, he realizes that weeks of super-heating his sword in combat has ruined its temper.