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Which has a higher melting point

Corn
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Bone
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Which has a higher melting point

Post by jim beam » Tue Jun 08, 2010 4:41 pm

Stevo was wanting to know which has a higher melting point corn or bone cause he needs to know which is better to make a fork out of.
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Re: Which has a higher melting point

Post by ShiftyDevil » Tue Jun 08, 2010 4:42 pm

jim beam wrote:Stevo was wanting to know which has a higher melting point corn or bone cause he needs to know which is better to make a fork out of.
Whichever it is we better start making sporks out of it.

Also, go DIAF Stevo
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Re: Which has a higher melting point

Post by Stevo » Tue Jun 08, 2010 4:43 pm

Definitely bone.

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Re: Which has a higher melting point

Post by BigBiker05 » Tue Jun 08, 2010 5:15 pm

Bone has a higher melting rate but corn burns easier.

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Re: Which has a higher melting point

Post by dredfox » Tue Jun 08, 2010 6:13 pm

BigBiker05 wrote:Bone has a higher melting rate but corn burns easier.
Heat corn with a reducing agent, wouldn't that take away the oxygen needed to cause combustion? Then again, we might vaporize it to methane and nitrogen gasses.

Just guessing, I know precious little of chemistry.

Technically though, isn't corn mostly water? Water is a liquid at temperatures at which calcium is solid.

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Re: Which has a higher melting point

Post by M's » Tue Jun 08, 2010 6:26 pm

It takes 2000 degrees F to cremate a human body correctly, and yet at that temp the bones do not burn or melt.
Try that with corn and your house will smell like burnt microwave popcorn.

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Re: Which has a higher melting point

Post by Bronze Fox » Tue Jun 08, 2010 7:53 pm

I'm with Mlite on this one. To actually melt something it has to go from a solid to a liquid, and even when you cremate a bone you are still left with ash. (Which is the bone)
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Re: Which has a higher melting point

Post by Boss Llama » Tue Jun 08, 2010 8:10 pm

Tricalcium Phosphate, the primary component of what's left of the bones after cremation, has a melting point around 2535 degrees Fahrenheit.

I don't know what Corn's melting point is, but it isn't that.
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Re: Which has a higher melting point

Post by The Spanish Inquisition » Tue Jun 08, 2010 10:01 pm

Alizée Fan wrote:Tricalcium Phosphate, the primary component of what's left of the bones after cremation, has a melting point around 2535 degrees Fahrenheit.

I don't know what Corn's melting point is, but it isn't that.
I say the plane is not going to take off, especially if we get into corn aspects of it.
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Re: Which has a higher melting point

Post by dredfox » Tue Jun 08, 2010 10:41 pm

I found info on corn's melting temperature!
Well sorta...

http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_is_the_m ... orn_starch

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Re: Which has a higher melting point

Post by arfy4 » Tue Jun 08, 2010 11:44 pm

The plane will not take off because it will hit the frozen corn that someone who didn't listen to the weather report wanted to melt. The plane was also made of bone, and nDidn't melt, except for on the sun, that one time.
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Re: Which has a higher melting point

Post by MrBlah » Wed Jun 09, 2010 12:15 am

Corn is 75% starch which is about 45% carbon. Since starch breaks down at about 250C in carbon and water, carbon's melting point is 6332F.
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Re: Which has a higher melting point

Post by Thom Yorke Obliterator » Wed Jun 09, 2010 7:23 am

At what temperature would a corn fork "pop" and become a puffy, buttery corn fork?

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Re: Which has a higher melting point

Post by And/Or » Wed Jun 09, 2010 7:55 am

Always such interesting discussions here on TheVille, it's bone correct? :?: And why do you need a fork made from this?

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Re: Which has a higher melting point

Post by MrBlah » Wed Jun 09, 2010 11:16 am

Bone's primary ingredient melts at 2535F. Corn's primary ingredient melts at 6332F.
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