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Does it float on magma?

Do houses in Iceland really do that?

Only briefly.

If you built a boat from SiC attached to enormous heat sinks radiating into empty space, it would float for longer.

But air-conditioning expense makes it cost-prohibitive.

Magma is pretty dense (it's molten rocks, after all), so many things float on magma.

Very interesting discussion on the subject :