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

99 percent of the human body is made of hydrogen, oxygen, carbon, and nitrogen. Most of the hydrogen and oxygen is bonded as water.

Assuming a sealed container under very high temperature and no additional oxygen supply, you’d break the bonds of all the organic molecules and the carbon would precipitate as soot. Water would convert to steam and recondense when it cooled off.

When your experiment is done you’d have a sooty, black broth and some nitrogen.