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Originally Posted by Tealeaf
Yeah, but my question was whether or not the resultant gas expansion would be sufficient to explode the coffin.
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Perhaps if instead of quoting you, I had quoted Busman as I'd meant to, the post would have looked similar to this:-
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Originally Posted by Busman747
If the coffin was actually air-tight, the body would surely become much, much lighter and the longer it decays and the various gasses given off from the corpse may have more boyancy than the original air that was in the coffin at the time of sealing the lid on..........?
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Originally Posted by Less
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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