Talk:Vaporization

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A possible expansion for this article - is sublimation not a form of vaporisation as well? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Applemacman301 (talk • contribs) 14:32, 31 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Yes it is. Lova Falk (talk) 15:20, 2 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

According to my general chemistry textbook (Brown, LeMay, et. al), vaporization is the process of a liquid being converted to the gaseous state. By that definition (which is also what this article uses), sublimation is not a form of vaporization.Christopher King (talk) 15:23, 19 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry to open a discussion on such a grisly subject, but I'm not sure this is accurate. I believe it is possible for this to happen if the weapon is powerful enough and if the body is close enough to the center of the explosion. However, I haven't been able to find any real evidence that this actually happened at Hiroshima or Nagasaki. A web search turns up many websites that say it happened, but I couldn't find any that cite reputable scientific or scholarly evidence. Many of the claims are clearly ridiculous: for example, some of the websites claim that 70,000 people were vaporized instantly.

The only source I found on the subject that seems at all reputable says it didn't happen: "... people - far from being instantly vaporized along with all buildings near ground zero - survived all of the nuclear explosion effects within the Hiroshima firestorm." https://archive.org/details/TheEffectsOfTheAtomicBombOnHiroshima

Obviously, many thousands of people died as a result of the bombings, but I don't know of any evidence that the cause was vaporization. I've added the "citation needed" tag to this sentence in the article. If a reputable source can be found that shows clear and convincing evidence that this happened, I'll remove it. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Echawkes (talk • contribs) 05:13, 9 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Should I have intentions when I do this? 174.247.241.230 (talk) 01:34, 18 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]