eli5: picture this, we put human skin in a container and expose it to unbelievably high temperatures would it melt or evaporate?

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In: Chemistry

Answer 1

It depends on the pressure and the temperature. Every substance has a phase diagram which describes what state of matter it will be in at a given pressure and temperature.

Since there are many different substances in human tissue, as someone else pointed out, some would melt and others would vaporize. It’s possible for anything to go from a solid to a gas, a process called sublimation, but it all depends on the pressure.

Bottom line is, at a high enough pressure, everything would melt, and at a low enough pressure, everything would vaporize.

Honestly, it would be more likely for something to catch on fire and the whole thing to burn up, considering humans are carbon based, and we have so much oxygen within is.