More than 400 kilograms of corpse caught fire during cremation, and corpse oil was the culprit!

Speaking of "corpse oil", the first thing that comes to my mind is not the horror legends in Thailand, but the movie "Perfume".

The film is about a teenager who is very gifted in smell. In order to make a unique perfume, he brutally murdered 13 girls, and collected oil on their bodies, and finally made a perfume, which seems to have a demagogic effect. magic.

In addition to these, there are many appalling claims about corpse oil.

Many people believe that corpse oil will enter the life of ordinary people like the previous "waste oil", such as mixing lipstick and perfume, and even serving it on the dining table.

Especially when we enforce cremation after death, people are very confused about "where did the body oil produced during cremation go".

Scientifically speaking, what is corpse oil? Does it really exist?

Because of unique talents, humans are different from other animals, but in essence, humans are also organisms and animals, containing substances such as fat and protein.

I don't know if you have the experience of boiling lard. The lard will slowly turn into liquid lard under high temperature.

Then, when the human body is cremated, because the body contains fat, it will also produce similar oils.

So, scientifically speaking, corpse oil is real. Produced when cremated, and when highly corrupted.

Where does the cremation oil go? Will it really be collected and sold?

As we all know, after cremation of a body of more than 100 kilograms, only two or three kilograms of ashes are left behind.

The composition of the ashes, from a scientific point of view, is mainly calcium phosphate, as well as a small amount of salt.

In other words, what was left in the end were all inorganic substances, and there were no organic substances such as corpse oil at all.

Where did the corpse oil go?

Let's take a look at a news first: In March 2019, a resident in Anhui boiled lard at home. He accidentally overcooked the lard, and the lard smeared and caused a fire in the house. Finally, firefighters were dispatched to put out the kitchen fire.

The lard continues to be hot and will be burned, not to mention the higher temperature and longer burning time of the cremator.

When the cremation furnace is working, the temperature is as high as 1000 degrees Celsius, and generally it takes one and a half hours to burn, and the time of different remains varies in different places.

In this process, the clothes and hair on the corpse are burned first. The high temperature causes the muscles on the body to contract suddenly, and the corpse will perform "small movements" similar to a boxer. After the water in the body has evaporated, the skin, muscles, and fat Tissues such as internal organs begin to burn.

The hardest parts of the human body are teeth and bones, which are mainly composed of inorganic substances, so they are not easy to burn off.

The only difference between the two is that the teeth are small in size and will be broken into small pieces when burned at high temperature for a long time. The average person cannot distinguish them with the naked eye. The bones of the human body are large and are most likely to be preserved as they are, but they will be more "brittle". ", it will break if you break it hard.

Before being put into the urn, the ashes are simply processed until the size of the burned bones can fit in the urn.

In other words, the final form of the ashes is not "ash", but a mixture of particles, lumps and powders, which is not the same as what is commonly seen on TV.

Judging from the final form and composition of the ashes, the fat of the corpse was burnt out during the cremation, and it is impossible to preserve it in liquid form.

Super obese body + cremation = fire?

In 2017, a fire broke out at an Ohio crematorium while cremation of an overweight body.

The cause of the fire was corpse oil.

During the cremation process, the fat produces a large amount of oil, which cannot be completely burned in a short period of time, and the heat generated is too much, which exceeds the limit temperature that the cremator can withstand, resulting in the incineration of the cremator.

Part of the grease turns into gas at high temperature. It stands to reason that the crematorium is designed to be refractory and not easy to catch fire. However, the roof of the crematorium is made of rubber. The vaporized high-temperature grease causes the roof to catch fire and emit thick smoke. damage to nearby houses. The fire was eventually put out and no one was injured.

This is not the first time it has happened because of the corpse oil fire.

In 2014, when a crematorium in Austria was cremating a 226-kilogram female body, grease clogged the air filter of the cremator, causing a fire to destroy the crematorium.

From these cases of cremation fires, it can be found that when the body is cremated, the grease will escape with the smoke.

One more question, if you collect oil fume and cool it, can you get liquid corpse oil? Just like a range hood, over time, a lot of residual grease can always be produced.

But in fact, crematoriums have strict requirements for gas emissions.

In addition to common particulate matter, carbon dioxide, carbon monoxide, nitrogen oxides and other substances, the exhaust gas after cremation also includes extremely strong carcinogens such as dioxin, so it needs to be "purified" before being discharged.

To remove oil fume, most of them will use secondary combustion or multiple combustion to ensure complete combustion, and oil fume will not be discharged or collected.

at last

In general, people are organisms, and burning produces grease, but the cremation temperature is extremely high, and hard bones will be burned and "broken", and the grease will also be burned.

The oil that escapes through the fumes will also be purified during the exhaust gas treatment process, so it is impossible to secretly collect corpse oil and flow into the market, and it is even less possible to use it to make perfume and lipstick.

The "corpse oil perfume" and "corpse oil crisp noodles" once circulated in the market have been proved to be malicious rumors after investigation, and they are not credible.

A scientific view of death and cremation is the key to debunking rumors!