Is Spontaneous Combustion real?

a Tobe Hooper film.

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But, that's not true at all. they take forever to burn.

>"proof!"
>unknown what started it, might have been self inflicted

clickbait horseshit

You should probably stay in school, kid.

Just reading the Wikipedia article on it

>Larry E. Arnold in his 1995 book Ablaze! proposed a pseudoscientific new subatomic particle, which he called "pyrotron". He also wrote that extreme stress could be the trigger that starts many combustions.[3]:163[20] This process may use no external oxygen to spread throughout the body, since it may not be an "oxidation-reduction" reaction;[citation needed] however, no reaction mechanism has been proposed. Researcher Joe Nickell has criticized Arnold's hypotheses as based on selective evidence and argument from ignorance.[20]
>In his 1976 book Fire From Heaven, UK writer Michael Harrison suggests that SHC is connected to poltergeist activity because, he argues "the force which activates the 'poltergeist' originates in, and is supplied by, a human being". Within the concluding summary, Harrison writes: "SHC, fatal or non-fatal, belongs to the extensive range of poltergeist phenomena."

topkek

It's possibly "real" in that people can burn to death under trange and unexplained circumstances. but there has to be some cause. People don't "spontaneously" catch fire.

Something in their clothes. Something in the air. Some accelerant somebody stepped in. Remnants from the sparkler you had in your pocket last Fourth of July. A wayward spark from God-knows-where. Something very unlikely but entirely possible happening with light or friction or some shit. Fuck, even some black directed-energy weapon. SOMETHING. But not "spontaneous combustion." It's just "combustion."

>But, that's not true at all. they take forever to burn.
I can confirm, having inside knowledge of cremation. Fun fact: some types of dense cancer tumors can increase the time needed in the oven by several hours.

>going to wikipedia to find out about anything
topkek

Wikipedia is almost always the best place to start if you know very little about something, poindexter.

>take forever to burn
literally every single one is over in a few minutes.

I thought the word "spontaneous", in this context, referred to the suddenness of it. Like, as opposed to a small ember somewhere gradually leading to flames engulfing your entire body, in SHC you're rapidly going from not-on-fire to on-fire.

Am I wrong?

yes, you are completely and entirely incorrect. are you really this stupid or are you trolling?
>ITT: retards equating reality with misnomers
this thread is the definition of a misnomer. only ignorant people respond with a reply that looks no deeper than the name of the subject. OP is asking about the phenomenon, not the name. it was obviously named before it was well known. it may not even be combustion. any person with a 6th grade education knows labels don't always describe the actual object or phenomenon.
>take "lead pencil" for example. how about "black-boards" really being dark green more often than not? tin foil isn't tin and you dont actually "dial" a phone number, do you? "head cheese" is meat not cheese, nor made from anything from a head, but idiots would argue with the names of these things and ignore what they actually are.
this is what is happening in this thread. stupid people arguing about something they know nothing about. leave Veeky Forums if you are this stupid

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Okay, thank you.

No

Can lard can be used as rocket fuel? I imagine combining it with a oxidizer would help. Fat cells can store more than fat, like fat soluble drugs. Maybe these people had accumulated a chemical in their fat cells that turned their bodies into rocket fuel.

They already simulated the exact same phenomenon with a dead pig.

Jesus how fucking uneducated are you guys?

>Can lard can be used as rocket fuel?
Sure.

>Maybe these people had accumulated a chemical in their fat cells that turned their bodies into rocket fuel.
Uh, no.
You need large amounts of oxide for that kind of a reaction. Unless a significant proportion of their bodyweight was hydrogen peroxide, I can't see that happening.

Who is "they"?
And what did they actually simulate?

What about acetone?

ketones, diabetus turns you into rocket fuel

its why they smell so bad and have yuck feet

Spontaneous Combustion appeared in the XX century when industry began to use DMSO, even in medecine.
now DMSO is considered harmful and no more used in everyday life.
And there is no more spontaneous combustion.

this

the fat melts and the clothing works as wick