#Nuke #BodyVaporization #WhatHappens
Have you ever heard the term “vaporized” used when describing the aftermath of a nuclear explosion? It’s a grim and terrifying concept, and it raises many questions about what exactly happens to a body when exposed to such extreme conditions. Let’s dive into the details of what it means when they say a body was “vaporized” during a nuke and explore what happens to bones and everything else.
**What Happens During a Nuclear Explosion?**
When a nuclear bomb detonates, it releases an immense amount of energy in the form of heat, light, and radiation. The heat generated by the explosion is so intense that it can instantly vaporize anything in its immediate vicinity, including human bodies. This process is known as vaporization, where the intense heat causes the body to turn into gas and disperse into the atmosphere.
**Effects on Bones and Tissues**
During a nuclear explosion, the heat generated can reach temperatures of thousands of degrees Celsius within milliseconds. This extreme heat can cause bones to vaporize, leaving behind only a fine residue of ash. Soft tissues, such as muscles and organs, can also be rapidly vaporized due to the intense heat, leaving no traces behind.
**Why Does Vaporization Occur?**
The vaporization of a body during a nuclear explosion is a result of the extreme temperatures and pressures generated by the blast. The heat is so intense that it can cause the atoms and molecules in the body to break apart, turning it into a gas. The rapid expansion of this gas causes the body to disintegrate and dissipate, leaving nothing but ashes and debris in its wake.
**Real-life Example**
One of the most well-known examples of vaporization during a nuclear explosion is the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945. The intense heat and pressure generated by the atomic bombs instantly vaporized thousands of people, leaving behind only shadows and imprints on the ground where they once stood.
In conclusion, when they say a body was “vaporized” during a nuclear explosion, it means that the intense heat and pressure caused the body to turn into gas and disperse into the atmosphere. Bones and tissues are rapidly vaporized, leaving behind only ashes and debris. It’s a horrifying reality of the destructive power of nuclear weapons, and one that we must never forget.
So now you have a better understanding of what it truly means when they say a body was “vaporized” during a nuke. It’s a grim and harrowing image, but one that serves as a stark reminder of the devastating impact of nuclear weapons. Stay informed, stay safe, and never forget the lessons of history.
Instant cremation, body turns to dust and the dust is scattered on the very strong winds so no trace is left of the body.
A nuke isn’t a bomb in the sense of pressure and ripping things apart and shrapnel, it’s actually a flash of energy so intense that everything melts and then boils and turns into gas from just the light of it. [Like being so close to the sun](https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=Yt3JVgzOZzE).
Materials can only take some [6000 degrees](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melting_point) – tungsten, really hard metals. The temperature in the Sun and in a nuke flash is millions of degrees. Everything melts (solid to liquid), boils (liquid to gas) and becomes a gas, no material can withstand such temperatures.
The calcium in your bones melts at 842°C, and boils at 1494 °C. The temperature of a nuclear fireball is on the order of 100,000,000 °C
If you shove enough energy into anything, it’ll eventually turn into a gas. Alternatively, if you only put in enough energy to liquify it or turn it to ash, but then hit it very hard, you get vapor.
Gone, reduced to atoms.
There is so much energy that every force holding the molecules together is overcome by the explosion. Only the strongest chemical bonds, like ionic bonds in salts may be able to survive.
Does every material in our body melt?
I’m just thinking how – I don’t think wood melts? So do things have to melt to be vaporized? Or does wood and other materials that don’t melt get vaporized another way? Or is it called something else?
In movies you see people “blown up” like they were pushed by a strong wind….
In reality a shock wave is when the air gets condensed to a point its rock solid until it expands from distance.
That’s why some firecrackers can take a finger off. Flesh doesn’t like being crushed into rock density even fir a micro second.
A big explosion creates a shock wave that is dense like a brick wall moving at 700 miles per hour. Bomb defusers wear those Kevlar suits mostly to keep their body parts in one container.
Now a nuke blast has several waves. First a gamma ray wave that destroys your cellular structure, light and radiant heat that incinerates your body to a couple thousand degrees…then a shock wave to blow your dust away.
They Get Turned into gases. If you look at pictures of hiroshima you can see shadows on the ground. Those are from the people that stood there when it happebed
Read Annie Jacobsen’s “Nuclear War.” It explained far more than I ever wanted to know about death by nuke.
Simplest way to think of it is a chain reaction at the atomic level and that they were converted into it’s energy.
easy. the bones and everything get vaporized with the body. it does this because nukes are good vaporizers. you’re welcome
Just what it says. There’s so much energy and heat in pure light up close that solid material is vaporized. There are shadows burned into the concrete near ground zero in Hiroshima that was cut out and preserved in a museum. It was a “shadow” literally formed from the carbon in the person’s body being *blasted out* and embedded into the concrete. As the only thing left of them.
If you ever watch footage of nuclear blast tests with buildings? that stuff that looks like smoke or dust coming up off buildings? That’s the paint and upper layers of material instantly vaporizing into visible gases as its burned away instantly and that’s sometimes miles away in these tests.
tl;dr – so much heat is hitting so fast that even bones vaporize into powder and dust and are blown away.
“Vaporized” is just the common expression we use to mean “totally annihilated”. Nukes have several ways to do this to you.
A nuclear blast basically has 3 components:
1) radiation
2) heat
3) blast
They can all “vaporize” you in slightly different ways.
The radiation is the part that gives you cancer. It’s a bunch of high energy particles that get blasted out like subatomic shrapnel. When you’re close enough the blast of those particles will just rip you apart at the subatomic level. Even individual atoms can get shredded.
The heat near the blast can get to 100,000,000C that’s several hundred times as hot as the surface of the sun. At that temperature everything we’re made of is a gas, so you evaporate. If you’re being pedantic, this is the part that’s the most literally “vaporizing”.
The blast is because all that energy compresses the air and pushes it away really fast. That’s essentially a really really fast wind. When you’re up close it hits significantly harder than a Mac truck.
A nuclear explosion releases an enormous amount of heat and pressure in a fraction of a second. This extreme heat can reach temperatures hotter than the surface of the sun, and the pressure can be equivalent to millions of pounds per square inch. When a person is exposed to such extreme conditions, their body can undergo a process called instant vaporization. This means that the body is heated so that it turns into vapor. The intense heat and pressure can also cause the body to disintegrate into very small particles or fragments. This can happen to bones, tissues, and organs, reducing them to microscopic or even smaller particles. What remains of the body after the explosion can be in the form of gases, ash, or very fine particles that are scattered by the force of the blast. The reason this happens is that the human body is made up of water and organic matter, which can be vaporized, burned, or disintegrated under extreme heat and pressure. The energy released by a nuclear explosion is so powerful that it can cause immediate and catastrophic damage to anything within its blast radius.