Favrion@lemmy.world to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-211 months agoWhat happens when people die with metal in or on them?message-squaremessage-square8fedilinkarrow-up10arrow-down10file-text
arrow-up10arrow-down1message-squareWhat happens when people die with metal in or on them?Favrion@lemmy.world to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-211 months agomessage-square8fedilinkfile-text
minus-squareCaptObvious@literature.cafelinkfedilinkarrow-up0·11 months agoLead melts at such a low temperature that it will vaporize long before the body is reduced to ash.
minus-squarechunkystyles@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·11 months agoI didn’t believe you. So I looked it up. I had no idea how hot cremation was. What a waste of energy.
minus-squareCmdrShepard@lemmy.onelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·11 months agoI learned this listening to true crime podcasts. Killers often try to burn bodies but it doesn’t work because you need an actual furnace to reduce a body down to ash.
Lead melts at such a low temperature that it will vaporize long before the body is reduced to ash.
I didn’t believe you. So I looked it up. I had no idea how hot cremation was. What a waste of energy.
I learned this listening to true crime podcasts. Killers often try to burn bodies but it doesn’t work because you need an actual furnace to reduce a body down to ash.