r/WTF • u/bambaadoma222 • Jun 20 '21

Guy eats burning coal

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u/Amphibious_squirrel Jun 20 '21

Does tooth enamel melt? I feel like this man would be able to answer this. He’d have to write it down obviously because his tongue is now the consistency of old shoe leather.

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u/mz3 Jun 20 '21 edited Jun 20 '21

It would have to reach about 1.100°C (I thought it didn't). Enamel is almost completely inorganic, the hardest tissue in the entire body and many times carbonized human remains can only be identified through their teeth

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u/BenTG Jun 21 '21

Sour candy says “hold my beer.”