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“I built the forms around him just yesterday afternoon when he fell asleep, and by early evening I was able to mix and pour.”
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I get the joke, but I’ve always been curious about this. Wouldn’t the heat from curing cook him alive?
Chemical burns and an inability to expand your chest for proper breathing=not a fun death. The heat is ~20-30F above the starting temperature. So like 110 max (don’t want to do concrete when its over 80F). The concrete reacts with water so natural sweating especially in the high temp results in said chemical burns.
Tldr you don’t cook but its arguably just as bad.
Most people aren’t aware of such dangers.
There’s an early Grey’s Anatomy episode where it happened. Assuming the science is close to correct, there were chemical burns and dehydration as major issues.
An early sketch of this comic:
Transcript (sketch):
“Did I say you could come up?.. Did I?”
I definitely like the final version a lot more
