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If a volcano is not active for thousand of years, it is considered to be extinct.

Sometimes it happens that an extinct volcano also errupts for sometimes due to some internal behaviour of magma inside the earth's crust in the core.

But generally it does not happen. If a volcano has neither been errupted for thousands of years not it has evoked any gases , it is considered to be extinct.

The concept of volcano is very interesting, adventerous and sometimes very dangerous. The molten rocks at very high temperature(known as magma) travel inside the earth's crust with very high velocity. The find places to come out from the crust to the surface of the earth. Wherever they find weak surfaces the just break up the surface and come out with erruption causing smoke and gases of hundreds of miles above the earth's surface.

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