Friday, April 13, 2007

The ignition of fat

The ignition of fat in a corpse may occur at a different point to the one given here. The books give a time between 5 and 20 minutes from the start of cremation. I also found some infromation Google Booking cremation. The following all provided some useful material: The Corpse: A History (Christine Quigley), Rising from the Flames (Albert Carter and Jane Petroand), The Archaeology of Human Bones, and Human Remains (Andrew Chamberlain). Although these books are not primarily about cremation, they do contain some interesting notes on the topic.

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