What chemicals will completely dissolve a human body, in about ten seconds?

[TheBlackSheep]

fluoroantimonic acid is pretty nasty stuff but still not as evilas the chicken vindaloo I had last week

[Leo_Bloom]

@Ruken

The splatter is because pretty much every carbon atom is ending up in a molecule of CO[sub]2[/sub]. That’s a lot of gas. And the exothermic reaction boils any water present.

Most of us would probably call the result an explosion.

Not a nitpick, certainly coming from me, but isn’t this called a deflagration?

@watchwolf49

I’d rather explain to my wife why I exploded 200,000 nuclear bombs than have to explain what happened to her mother.

[Ruken]

@Leo_Bloom

Not a nitpick, certainly coming from me, but isn’t this called a deflagration?

I’m not sure why it would be; there shouldn’t be much in the way of fire going on. But there might. I’m not going to try it.

[Lumpy]

I’m sure it would take longer than ten seconds, but supercritical steam in a pressure vessel would reduce a body to bones and soup in a short time.

[watchwolf49]

@Lumpy

I’m sure it would take longer than ten seconds, but supercritical steam in a pressure vessel would reduce a body to bones and soup in a short time.

That would just leave the bones, maybe an acidic supercritical steam? I like where this is going, I think we can make the steam like supersupercritical and it’ll take out the biochemistry in less than ten seconds. What acid dissolves bone in a hurry?