RE: Yellowstone Park accident victim dissolved in boiling acidic pool
November 18, 2016 at 1:44 pm
(This post was last modified: November 18, 2016 at 1:48 pm by Anomalocaris.)
(November 18, 2016 at 1:12 pm)Shell B Wrote: I just want to point out that you probably can't eat soup made in the water either, guys. For some reason, your insides don't like acid.
Actually, your stomach acid has pH of about 1. Your stomach is almost certainly much more acidic than the Yellowstone pool.
The victim probably didn't just dissolve by acid. There was also the boiling temperature. More likely his body was cooked by the heat of the pool and came apart like an over boiled chicken before acid was able to really attack the remains.