# Exposing human body to super-high temperature for super-short time

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [November 17, 2020, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/exposing-human-body-to-super-high-temperature-for-super-short-time/925822 "2020-11-17T21:01:25Z")\
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**Post date:** [November 18, 2020, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/exposing-human-body-to-super-high-temperature-for-super-short-time/925822/19 "2020-11-18T18:02:46Z")

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You can run your finger through a candle flame quite painlessly, also a gas stove flame. I’d be hesitant to try that with an oxyacetylene welding torch. Here’s a big [argument on the temperature of static electricity](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-temp-of-a-static-charge-spark/149198). Since I can see ionized gas in the spark, I expect T must be quite high.

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