How volcano victim's brain turned glass
To make glass from soft tissue the sequence of events must be exactly right. This is how experts think it went down
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‘Brain vitrification’: new research shows how the Vesuvius eruption turned a man’s brain to glass
A young man killed in the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 CE was likely overcome by a fast-moving cloud of gas at a temperature of more than 500°C in a process that transformed fragments of his brain into glass, according to new research.
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