Would it hurt to be vaporized?

Your chemoelectic thought process travels at about 256 feet per second. Therefore you would be vaporized well before you could make any semblance of pain. The central area of the detonation would be full of ionizing radiation. This would travel at the speed of light 186,000 miles per second.

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How does it feel to be vaporized?

It would be akin to flicking a light switch, one moment you're there, the next you're gone. This would all happen the moment the nuclear device was detonated. The heat that would vaporize you travels at the speed of light.

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Can bombs vaporize people?

The temperature at ground level reached 7,000 degrees Fahrenheit in less than a second. The bomb vaporized people half a mile away from ground zero. Bronze statues melted, roof tiles fused together, and the exposed skin of people miles away burned from the intense infrared energy unleashed.

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Is a nuclear blast painless?

Depends how close you were. If you died instantly, it'd basically be seering pain, and then death in a millisecond. If you were too far away, you'd suffer from third degree burns all over your naked body because your clothes burned off, until you die. Then it'd be painful.

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What does it mean when you get vaporized?

If you're watching a sci-fi movie, it probably means to vanish quickly or be utterly obliterated by a phaser gun. As the structure of the word suggests, vaporize means "turn into vapor." Sometimes this means just turning into gas, like when boiling water turns into steam and rises into the atmosphere.

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What Will A Nuclear Blast Do To Your Body?

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Can you vaporize a body?

A trio of researchers at the University of Leicester did, so they ran some tests and found out it would take roughly 2.99 GJ to vaporize an average-sized adult human body. Quoting: "First, consider the true vaporization – the complete separation of all atoms within a molecule – of water.

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Is vaporization real?

vaporization, conversion of a substance from the liquid or solid phase into the gaseous (vapour) phase. If conditions allow the formation of vapour bubbles within a liquid, the vaporization process is called boiling. Direct conversion from solid to vapour is called sublimation.

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Has anyone ever been vaporized?

No. The Hiroshima nuke provided enough to vaporize people at the distance of 20 - 30 m from the bomb itself, maybe 40 - 50 m if you factor in the destruction of the body. The bomb detonated at 600 m = about 400 - 300× less powerful than needed to vaporize any human body.

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Is Hiroshima still radioactive?

The answer is a definitive no. After the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombs, residual radiation was left behind but this declined rapidly. According to the city of Hiroshima local government website, research has indicated that 80 percent of residual radiation was emitted within 24 hours of the bombing.

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Is it easy to survive a nuke?

The resulting inferno, and the blast wave that follows, instantly kill people directly in their path. But a new study finds that some people two to seven miles away could survive—if they're lucky enough to find just the right kind of shelter.

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Can you still see the Hiroshima shadows?

Many of the shadows etched into the stone were lost to weathering and erosion by wind and water. Several nuclear shadows have been removed and preserved in the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum for future generations to ponder these events.

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What countries would survive a nuclear war?

Scientists have recently revealed that Australia and New Zealand are best placed to survive a nuclear apocalypse and help reboot collapsed human civilisation. The study, published in the journal Risk Analysis. These countries include not just Australia and New Zealand, but also Iceland, the Solomon Islands and Vanuatu.

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How hot was the Hiroshima bomb?

The Hiroshima fireball was 370 meters (1,200 ft) in diameter, with a surface temperature of 6,000 °C (10,830 °F), about the same temperature as at the surface of the sun. Near ground zero, everything flammable burst into flame.

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What if Tsar Bomba hit New York?

If such a weapon exploded in a large American city such as New York, Chicago, San Francisco, or Washington, D.C., their metropolitan areas plus large portions of their surrounding suburbs would be completely destroyed and nearly devoid of all life.

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What will nuclear war look like?

In addition to killing hundreds of thousands of people instantly, a nuclear explosion would create visible, infrared, and ultraviolet light waves that would combine to produce a large, very hot fireball capable of burning everything and creating third-degree burns within an even larger radius than the blast damage.

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What happens to a human in a nuclear blast?

EFFECTS ON HUMANS

Nuclear explosions produce air-blast effects similar to those produced by conventional explosives. The shock wave can directly injure humans by rupturing eardrums or lungs or by hurling people at high speed, but most casualties occur because of collapsing structures and flying debris.

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Why people can live in Hiroshima but not in Chernobyl?

But in a reactor core, there needs to be plenty of material such that the reaction can be stable and self-sustaining. Therefore there will be much more enriched uranium present in a uranium power plant. Hiroshima had 46 kg of uranium while Chernobyl had 180 tons of reactor fuel.

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What is worse than an atomic bomb?

But a hydrogen bomb has the potential to be 1,000 times more powerful than an atomic bomb, according to several nuclear experts.

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How long until Chernobyl is safe?

More than 30 years on, scientists estimate the zone around the former plant will not be habitable for up to 20,000 years. The disaster took place near the city of Chernobyl in the former USSR, which invested heavily in nuclear power after World War II.

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How loud is a nuke?

The noise from the largest detonated atomic bomb, the RDS-202 Tsar Bomb, can be estimated at an incredible 224 dB. Since the decibels are logarithmic, it is a hundred times more deafening a noise than the Saturn V space rocket.

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How hot to vaporize a person?

I saw another answer that listed crematoriums at 750 to 1,100 degrees, around there. The atom bombs dropped on Japan created fireballs of about 7,230 degrees farenheit, that was able to vaporize humans.

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Can bones vaporize?

Boiling point of hydroxyapatite is around 1500°C so you will need this temperature to make bone literally evaporate. Prolonged exposure to lower temperature (like reference in other answer 220°C) will break collagen and make bones weak and extremely fragile.

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Can water be vaporized?

Evaporation is the process that changes liquid water to gaseous water (water vapor). Water moves from the Earth's surface to the atmosphere via evaporation. Evaporation occurs when energy (heat) forces the bonds that hold water molecules together to break.

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What would vaporize the earth?

Gamma-ray bursts are thought to occur when a massive star runs out of nuclear fuel and its core collapses. These cosmic explosions are so dangerous, they could vaporize Earth with a direct hit from 200 light-years away.

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Can anything become a vapor?

If properly done, just about anything can be vaporized and dissipated into the open air. Public Domain Image, source: Christopher S. Baird. Even though a common substance like vinegar is in the liquid state at room temperature, some of it still turns into a vapor and dissipates into the air.

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