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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?
Most people aren’t aware of such dangers.
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.
You’d be breathing as it cures though so presumably there would be a cavity, going to the bathroom on the other hand…
It would eventually fill the cavity. And there’s your mental image for the day.
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.
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