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A body that is cut up will decompose faster than a whole body. Underground there are several variables, one being temperature. I believe that the FBI's crime research lab is in Quantico, VA, and that they have a fenced-off area to study dec...
After the third-instar larva has finished feeding, it moves around in search of a site in which to pupate. For many species, this involves burrowing into the soil. These late, third-instar larvae are called 'pre-pupae' and while they are se...
Depending on environmental factors it would take 3-16 weeks and sometimes it may not decompose at all. The factors are weather, animals, insects, humidity, moisture, temperature and decay rate. In each it would either slow or speed the rate...
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Living things that die start to rot. Bacteria and bugs eat them, and the body--being dead--doesn't have any systems in place to prevent this (unless the dead person has been embalmed, which slows the decomposition process). So bodies decomp...
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the first stage is the intial conditions,2 is the intial decay,third is putrefacation fourthis black putrefaction,fifth is butyric fermentation and the sixth is dry decay all of these steps take at least 50 days to a year to do this
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My understanding is that if the decomp is really bad, they try to identify the person by other means (fingerprints, dental records, etc.).
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If the body was alive and completely exposed to the vacuum (i.e., no space suit) the blood would most likely boil in its veins first of all. The boiling point of water is actually much lower in a vacuum than within an atmosphere. As the bod...
http://www.battlestarforum.com/showthread.php?t=2389
Salt is used to stop the decomposition of flesh. It has been used in the preservation of meat for many years. However some preparation would probably be required for the preservation of a a whole body. and there would be changes in the stat...
http://wiki.answers.com/Q/Will_salt_keep_a_dead_body_fr...
Those are cancers-related illnesses. If there is any kind of cancer in any body; there is no point wasting time; the person must be taken to proper embalmment right away. The reason is that the oozing from cancerous genes are a very good so...
http://thenationonlineng.net/web2/articles/17134/1/Abus...
The decomposition of a body occurs in stages. In the first stage enzymes within the body begin to break down the cells and vapours are released. In the second stage scavengers (bacterial and animal) are responsible for a great deal of the d...
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