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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.Thought it was real until I saw a programme where they said it was the wick effect. Basically they wrapped a dead pig in a blanket and set light to it. It worked like a candle, where it burned totally and locally where it was alight and only damaged the immediate area around it, but burnt out afater a while leaving the rest of the pig unburnt. The temepratures with this form of burning are very high indeed but don't produce the "flash over" you get with a normal fire.
Not very well explained but I'm sure there must be a section on "The wick effect" on the web somewhere which probably explains it better.
Not very well explained but I'm sure there must be a section on "The wick effect" on the web somewhere which probably explains it better.
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This 'wick effect' doen't seem to account for some cases. For instance, the case of Robert Francis Bailey.
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