Why are burns due to chemicals or intense cold also called “burns”? What do they have in common with the regular burns due to fire or heat?

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Not sure whether to flair this as biology or physics, but any idea why?

In: Biology

Answer 1

Just to add on there are a few types of burn

Radiation is on you missed, for example sunburn is a radiation burn from UV energy but there are other types too

The other classes were wet, dry and chemical last time I remember