Complete Vaporisation of a Human Body
Keywords:
Science fiction trope, Physics, Chemistry, Thermodynamics, Vaporisation, Power-EnergyAbstract
From the previous paper, we were able to determine, hypothetically, the approximate amount of energy required to completely vaporise a human skeleton. In this paper, we focused on vaporising the whole water constituent of the body and the remaining tissues of a human body by finding the total dissociation energy for each of this constituent. For simplification, we used dried pork to represent the remaining tissues of the body. Finally, we calculated the combined amount of energy required to completely vaporise a human body to be 2.99GJReferences
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Stylianidis, N., Adefioye-Giwa, O., & Thornley, Z. (2017). Complete Vaporisation of a Human Body. Journal of Interdisciplinary Science Topics, 2. Retrieved from https://journals.le.ac.uk/index.php/jist/article/view/705
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