On Oct 1, 2009, at 8:52 AM, Abd ul-Rahman Lomax wrote:
SHC isn't simple wicking, that's obvious; if it were, exposing the
body to enough heat, any part of it, would then cause combustion of
the whole. Some unusual precondition would have to exist; therefore
the experiment with a "large ham" would normally fail and it would
mean nothing about SHC.
It doesn't always fail, at least according to one poster here:
At 11:05 AM 6/21/99, Mitchell Jones wrote:
[snip]It must be emphasized that his is not mere theory, but
experimentally verified fact: a dead pig was placed on a carpet,
with a
cigarette placed under the edge of the body, and the wicking effect
did, in
fact, consume the almost all of the carcass, bones and all. Only
the ends
of some of the legs were left. (If memory serves, the article I read
appeared in *Science News*.) --Mitchell Jones}***
However, such an experiment is not a replication of what happens in
many well documented cases, which occurred very rapidly, and did not
heavily involve other flammable material close by. There is a book
out on the subject that has various convincing photos, some from
police investigations. Try googling "Spontaneous Human Combustion".
More fun might be sorting out the "real" images from the fakes and
rock band photos:
http://tinyurl.com/ycsfrzr
Best regards,
Horace Heffner
http://www.mtaonline.net/~hheffner/
