2006-09-06 11:08:19 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Health ➔ Other - Health
I think cremation incinerators operate at at least 4000 degrees, in order to completly comsume a human.BTW, did you know that the human heart is the toughest part to burn...
2006-09-06 11:11:54 · answer #1 · answered by rachely1 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Most human parts wouldn't melt. Fat melts, and at a fairly low temperature (like the temps you'd cook food at.) The other parts would have to have the water heated out of them and then the remaining protein matrix burnt up (like muscles and bones.) Hair burns at a low temp because it's all dead keratin and has little moisture. But organs and stuff are fairly juicy, so it would be like roasting meat until it burns, then turns to ash. People are animals--roast a piece of meat! Poke it with a thermometer and see how hot the melted fat is.
Crematoriums burn at a high temp to burn bones up into little charred chunks. But then, the cremains (the burnt remains of corpses) are bashed up and pulverized by machine. Bodies don't come out as powder, more like chunks.
Mmmmmm!
2006-09-06 11:18:35 · answer #2 · answered by SlowClap 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Under normal earth atmosphere people can not melt. We combust like wood does. If you could put person (dead person) under huge amounts of pressure and then started raising the temperature then people will melt. Some parts of us melt under normal pressure (ie fat)
2006-09-06 11:15:09 · answer #3 · answered by gawain37 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
What a strange question to ask. Why would you want to know.
I wouldn't say that we would melt, solids, like metal melt. But we burn like wood etc.
Why don't you ask Google about cremation.
2006-09-06 11:13:23 · answer #4 · answered by Dale 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2017-02-19 23:03:36 · answer #5 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
not melt, burn
if the intensity of heat or light was strong enough, say from gamma rays of a dying star
it will destroy every cell in every organism
2006-09-06 11:14:49 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
i was here just to see for sure. lol...weird question but it intriqued me. lol i dont know if we could melt.... iwould think we would more burst into flames under the correct conditions. but i will watch your answers. lol...if that isnt right... im going for about 6000 degrees
2006-09-06 11:12:14 · answer #7 · answered by pencilnbrush 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Above normal.
2006-09-06 11:13:49 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I am guessing it has to be very very extremely hot. So basiclly 1,00,000,000 degrees?!
2006-09-06 11:10:01 · answer #9 · answered by Blink-182 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
32000 degrees. the temp of the sun.
i dunno.
2006-09-06 11:14:24 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋