Thermal lance is every bit as awesome as it sounds
This is a video, from YouTuber OliKills, showing two guys using a thermal lance (Wikipedia), also called a "thermic lance" or "burning bar," to cut through a lump of concrete. It really gets going about 20 seconds in, and by the end of the video a white-hot stream of molten concrete "lava" is clearly visible running across the pavement.
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