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[snaggles]

After reading on the wiki that zinc boils in magma (which it technically does), and reading here about boiling zinc mug gas chambers, I decide to create my own. When the zinc mugs were dropped in magma, they only melted, and either took much longer to boil or didn't at all. I didn't bother to find out, as having a five minute warm-up on my gas chamber didn't seem too deadly. I changed the melting point to be much higher in the raws so that it would boil first. I achieved my result of a boiling zinc cloud when the goblets were dropped in magma, but the clouds did not go up through the hole in the floor.

Is there any way to create a barrier that the zinc cloud can go through but not magma, or make the zinc cloud go up/big enough to go up?

[The Mad Engineer]

Screwpumps out to do it.  Just put down enough on the sides of the magma area to create a "wall" of magma, like Moses (only dwarfier) that gets pumped away quicker than it can move into the gas chamber:

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