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Asked by dobby to Gemma on 15 Jun 2011.
Question: what temperature would something have to be at for a chunk of human flesh, 6cm by 6cm by 6cm, to immidiently disintergrate on contact?
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Gemma Sharp answered on 15 Jun 2011:
Wow. Another random but interesting question!
Umm, well, it’s not something I’ve ever tried (not just because I’ve never had a 216cm^3 chunk of human flesh handy).
You’re right to specify the size and shape of the chunk, because I think volume and surface area would probably be factors. Another factor might be what sort of flesh/tissue it is, i.e. skin and fat, or lung or whatever (this really is a horrible thing to think about just after my dinner!).
I don’t know the exact temperature, but it would have to be really hot. In the second world war nuclear attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, human bodies apparently ‘vaporised’ which means they got so hot they turned into a gas. A hauntingly terrible thought.
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dobby commented on :
yeah.
if i was interested in science i might become a scientist just to find out but tbh, cba because i can’t stand science.
i guess i’ll just have to stick with a nucleur bomb if i need to vaporize anything. thanks anyway 🙂
p.s. twilight sucks
Judith commented on :
In the FBI list of “best deaths”-like the most inventive ways of killing people, there was a story fo a man who pointed the exhaust fume of a jet engine at someone and that got so how her entire body went up in smoke, gives me the jeebies about planes now but meh!
sabahkhaliq commented on :
this is a good question
Gemma commented on :
I think this is one of my favourite questions of the whole competition 😉