Is spontaious conbustion really real??

Question

I did a paper back in high school about this, and to me it sounded some what real, but we havent heard anything about in ages.. so help me out, what do you think?

Answer 1

Yeah, it happens

Answer 2

Yes, let me give an example I had here at work. The chef here uses towels to wipe up an oily spill. Throws the towels in laundry. It gets washed with bleach and thrown in the dryer. The towels are dry the dryer has been off for 24hrs. The laundry person comes to take them out of the dryer and throws them in a clean dry tub (non combustable) she walks away 6 minutes later they burst into flames. What caused this? Spontaneous combustion of the chemicals created by the bleach and the fry oil. All they needed was oxygen to complete the ignition.

Answer 3

Well, there has been some strong speculation about that in the past. But since the National Geograhic Channel did the exploration of the topic back in 2004, the speculation stopped. It proved that human body has enough fuel in itself to be burned spontaneously. SC mostly happens in the older people, according to NGC.

I would recommend that you watch that program on the National Geographic channel, they still show that program once a month. And here's a website for that,

http://channel.nationalgeographic.com/channel/isitreal/episodes.html

Hope this helped.

Answer 4

Nope, seen a programme that proves it a load of toff. People fall asleep in their chair, die from smoke inhalation n catch fire usally from a ciggy. once a person begins to burn the fat acts like candle wax burning for a very long period. The flames are steady and so the room heats up causing thermoplastics to melt from the heat build up but no fire other than the burning body fueled by fat, which gives rise to the phenomenon

Answer 5

Spontaneous combustion is real. Chemicals, plants, and other objects can and do burst into flames without a readily apparent, identifiable external source of ignition. I think you are referring to spontaneous HUMAN combustion (SHC), which has never been verified. Most cases have been attributed to smoking, candles or other consumable fuel sources.

Answer 6

Yes and no. It can happen with grains, but not humans. Bacteria gets to dry grains and the waste is alcohol, the same flamable alcohol. It then gets hot enough to catch fire (for instance in a grain silo during a hot day). Humans are mostly water, so you know you can't catch water on fire.

Answer 7

yes it is real but very very rare. chemicals build up inside the human body and if the conditions are right those chemicals develope into gases which can combust. you see the chemical breakdown into gasses in post mordom people that have been dead for about 48 hours....then comes the bloating depending on temputure and surrounding atmosphere.

Answer 8

It has been disproved fairly solidly by duplicating results with incapacitated slow burning flesh of pigs simulating accidental fires started by normal methods.

Answer 9

Well yes this is very possible ... Did u fall out of a tree?

Answer 10

Do you mean spontaneous human combustion, or combustion of oily rags? If any firefighters read this, they could tell you.

Answer 11

786.

yes, some times it happens in extremes!