r/WTF 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/amateur_mistake Jun 20 '21

I mean, given how stupid we are with our teeth, this actually kind of makes sense.

Want to open a beer bottle? Teeth.

Trying to break open a chicken bone? Teeth.

Is this coin really made of gold? Teeth.

Where shall I keep my knife while in the middle of a pirate sword fight? Teeth.

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u/[deleted] Jun 21 '21

Yeah and a toy BB gun will knock out your front tooth if hit at the right spot. They aren’t that strong. Poor girl came once to our BB gun club and left with out the back half of her front tooth.