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Alkaline Hydrolysis - Dissolving Bodies with Lye
When I'm dead, I don't think I'm going to care what happens with my body. However, I realize my family might not feel the same, so perhaps the idea of...

Alkaline hydrolysis - the latest green fashion to depart this planet
It’s the process of alkaline hydrolysis and here's how it works. A 300°F solution lye (sodium hydroxide) is sprayed on a body at 60 pounds of pressure per square inch in stainless steel cylinders. This actually turns the dead body in ...

Alkaline Hydrolysis -- A Better Way of Body Disposition?
Cremation and burial may be so yesterday if alkaline hydrolysis becomes popular. Using this process, lye is used to dissolve the body into a brown syrup which can then be poured down the drain. Here are some excerpts from Norma...

Alkaline Hydrolysis: Tearin' Up Bodies Quicker Than A Chainsaw
Previously reserved for animals, it's called Alkaline Hydrolysis and it involves the dissolution of bodies in a highly concentrated compound. Then, the body is essentially pressure cooked until all that remains is a coffee-colored ...

Alkaline Hydrolysis
SCIENCE BUZZ: Dissolving bodies with lye, which has been used to get rid of animal carcasses for years, is being touted as the green alternative to burial and cremation. Burial is expensive, and cremation can be sacrilegious (someone ...

Alkaline Hydrolysis
The process is called alkaline hydrolysis and was developed in this country 16 years ago to get rid of animal carcasses. It uses lye, 300-degree heat and 60 pounds of pressure per square inch to destroy bodies in big stainless-steel ...

Comment on "Introducing Alkaline Hydrolysis"
As to the poster's question about the volume of cremains, the ash is strictly the bones. The rest goes out the chimney stack; at a high enough temperature, everything is flammable except the mineral content of the bones. ...

Comment on "Introducing Alkaline Hydrolysis"
That reminds me of an episode of CSI; a vagrant was being a nuisance to a hotel security guy, so the security guy beats him up, stuffs him into a duffel bag and leaves him out in the desert, figuring he'll wake up later and be able to ...

Alkaline Hydrolysis
Isn't this what they did in Dune? CONCORD, NH - Since they first walked the planet, humans have either buried or burned their dead. Now a new option is generating interest ó dissolving bodies in lye and flushing the brownish, ...

Comment on "Introducing Alkaline Hydrolysis"
or try hydrophilic acid (see Breaking Bad, S1 E02). the cremation ashes thing.... i've always wondered if those are really your ashes. It seems a bit too convenient to me that a full human could be burned and the ashes fit nicely in a ...









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