Eric Stevens wrote in message
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On Wed, 30 Jun 2004 15:47:18 +0100, Martyn Harrison
wrote:


We did come up with the idea that you might get this sort of temperature
in a
funeral pyre, because you need that sort of temperature to turn the body
to
ash.

You might GET that temperature but you don't NEED that temperature.
See
http://www.funeralplan.com/funeralpl...rocessing.html
"1,400 and 1,800 degrees fahrenheit" - approx 760C - 982C which is
less than the 1083C needed to melt copper. Even the formation of deep
copper oxides requires about 1060C.



Eric Stevens


Even they don't completely reduce the body to ash. The teeth and several
large pieces of bone are left behind, they get run through a ball mill
before they return the ashes.

Paul K. Dickman