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Graveyard Smash - It was a Dark and Stormy Month

SciShow Tangents

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How to Dissolve a Human Body

Sodium hydroxide can dissolve a human body, but also heat it up right. It's much less hot than re cream fire cremation. The water that contains all your dissolved up body is just basic organic chemicals. You don't want to dump that. And so people are recycling the electronics from it.

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