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09-26-2020, 05:27 PM
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Re: Worker Jumps Into Smelting Furnace
There is a good "whoever smelt it dealt it" joke in here somewhere...sorry I just couldnt forge that joke...it would have been a gas!!!
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09-26-2020, 05:34 PM
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Re: Worker Jumps Into Smelting Furnace
I dont think you understand the energy in there. You would be instantly vaporized and all that would remain would be fine ash. This would happen in less then a second if he fell into the molten metal. You are looking at temps around 1500° C or 2700°F!!! Water boils at 100°C or 212°F!!! |
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09-26-2020, 07:45 PM
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Re: Worker Jumps Into Smelting Furnace
Read about the leidenfrost effect. When you put a liquid onto a surface that is far hotter then the boiling point of the liquid, it create a layer of steam that seperate the hot surface from the liquid. Since the body is mostly liquid it would do this for a few seconds. Also even though it's molten, metal is so dense that you would easily float on it and would strugglr to sink even if you tried, so even if he jumped in there he most likely stayed on the surface where the effect i told you about would protect him for a few second until the heat can catch up to his flesh.
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09-27-2020, 04:54 AM
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Re: Worker Jumps Into Smelting Furnace
Man, this is terrifying to imagine, but I don't buy it. I was going to say this must've been a super quick way to go and was near-instant but now you have me wondering. I can't imagine that the leidenfrost effect is enough to actually suspend your whole body. I have to believe you'd just turbo sink and be dead before you had time to register the heat, at that level. |