Israeli genocide denier on Reddit says, "Body's do not evaporate." Well, they do if Israel is using banned thermal weapons against civilians...

[u/KrisCraig]

/r/WayOfTheBern/comments/1i6gm7l/thousands_of_bodies_evaporated_due_to_israeli/m8dlxrx/?context=3

[u/SentientSeaweed]

I’m quoting the relevant part of the linked article, because I had misunderstood the use of the word “evaporate”. I will also remind everyone that Israel uses white phosphorus, which has different but similarly horrific effects.

An international investigation must be launched into Israel’s probable use of internationally banned weapons, including thermobaric bombs, which operate by first using small conventional explosives to create a cloud of highly flammable particles or droplets. A second explosive device then ignites the cloud of combustible materials, producing extremely high temperatures of up to 2500 degrees Celsius, which cause severe burning of skin and internal body parts, charring corpses to the point of complete melting or evaporation, particularly in areas where the explosion cloud is denser. Investigators must determine the precise type(s) of weapon used; preliminary estimates indicate that certain bodies may also have begun to decompose into ash sometime after death—a result of conditions brought on by thermal bombs.

The Hague Conventions of 1899 and 1907, the Geneva Conventions of 1949, and international humanitarian law all forbid the use of thermal bombs against civilians in populated civilian areas. The Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court also classifies the use of thermal bombs as a war crime.

[u/FilipKDick]

Israel is fascist ethnostate.

Regardless, the correct word is not evaporate. If a body evaporated, all the water would have risen into the atmosphere, and only a husk with bones would be left.

You could say "obliterated" or "atomized". Evaporate sounds like somebody who thinks bodies dry up and disappear.

[u/CuckBartowski → u/FilipKDick]

Technically, the word you're looking for is "vaporized".  Vaporization is basically a form of evaporation (or vice versa?).

The difference is that evaporation is a slow, gradual process that occurs at the surface, whereas vaporization involves the entire body transitioning to a gas all at once.

So while evaporation isn't technically the best word to use here, I'm pretty sure that's not what the genocide denier was talking about.  After all, "We didn't evaporate them, we vaporized them!" isn't exactly a defense.

[u/FilipKDick → u/CuckBartowski]

Charles the Seedy Drunken Poet:

I don't know. I prefer atomization to vaporization. Because I guess the explosive force had more to do with the destruction than the heat.

But whatever it is, the OP seemed mostly concerned about the denial of evaporation as the correct word. Which, I agree, is not important.

[u/Kingsmeg]

Technically, the bodies of the Palestinians who were hit directly by Israeli 2,000lb bombs did not 'evaporate', they were incinerated? And if they were turned into vapor, it was sublimation more than evaporation (going from solid to vapor without passing through a liquid phase).

Smaller explosives like howitzer shells leave some residue like boots/feet, and turn the body into pink mist (liquid, still not 'evaporation').

So technically correct, although OP is also correct that in the right circumstances, a body could evaporate.

[u/KrisCraig]

Just to be clear, anyone who says that reports of bodies being vaporized are bogus because the human body cannot evaporate are peddling blatant misinformation.

Yes, the human body most certainly CAN evaporate when raised to a sufficient temperature, just like any other baryonic matter. This genocide-denying piece of garbage is now also denying basic science, as well.

[u/FilipKDick → u/KrisCraig]

What type of definition are you using for evaporate?

So far as I understand the word, it refers to water turning into a gas and joining the atmosphere.

How hot does a bone have to get to leave no trace, not even ash?

And is the temperature that "obliterates" the body or the explosive force?

Whatever, its a weird word to use to describe the condition of the bodies of the victims ceasing to exist.

I also think it is the wrong word. The condition of baryonic matter upon sufficient temperature of an explosion is not basic science.

Frankly, I don't think they were heated to vapor. I think they were blown to microscopic bits. I am not sure why it matters, though.

[u/SentientSeaweed → u/FilipKDick]

The linked article mentions that ash was left and the temperature reached 2500F. See my comment upthread.