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Old 09-11-2010, 11:24   #36
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Re: Would a lead lined coffin float?

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Originally Posted by Tealeaf View Post
Very hypothetical, Busman. You could also argue that if various gases were given off then the internal pressure would have been such so as to explode the coffin. Is there anyone here who does have knowledge of the rates of various gas discharges from a decomposing male body?
If a sealed balloon with some Liquid Nitrogen in it was placed on a scale and weighed say, 1g, although the Nitrogen would soon expand into a gas inflating the balloon, the scale would still register 1g.

So, as long as any gasses within the coffin didn't break the seal it too would still weigh the same.


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Is that less in those coffins?
No I have my own filled with the soil from the place of my birth.
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