what happens to all the mass of a human body that doesn’t turn to ash after a cremation?

Question

what happens to all the mass of a human body that doesn’t turn to ash after a cremation?

In: Chemistry

Answer 1

Burning is a chemical reaction that seperates once solid materials like fats and proteins, and releases some of these particles as smoke, gases, tiny particles, so the resulting ash is only the parts of the molecules that stay as solid bits when they burn.

And then water evaporates