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Spontaneous Human Combustion

Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World

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Is Asitone Inflammable?

If the body's cells are starved, which can occur during chronic illness and even during a workout at the gym, our bodies can produce acitone. And acitone is highly flammable. So we marinated pork tissue and acitone rather than ethenal. This was used to make scale models of humans, which we clothed and set alight. They burned to ash within half an hour. The remains a ile of smoking cinders with protruding limbs were exactly like the photographs of human victims. But while the experiment he did with miniature models of humans made up of acitone soaked pork is impressive, i'm not sure how much it helps us in solving this mystery. It

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