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Energy needed to Vaporize your average Skyscraper?

So turns out after plugging in numbers for vaporization in place of fragmentation that it would only be Small City level

6.9160041e+15 juoles to be exact
 
That... shouldn't be possible. Vaporization is caused by a massive increase in heat/energy; melting is 1 step down from vaporization, since melting ice is far less impressive than vaporizing water.

Like how even.
 
Going by the calc in the blog, melting your average skyscraper is Mountain level. So one would assume vaporization would be higher.
 
There has to be a number error there...

That is an insane level for melting. Like that's so unrealistically powerful that I don't even get how it happened. According to that calc it would take the full concentrated energy and heat from the Tzar Bomba to melt a skyscraper.
 
Perhaps a recalc is in order? Maybe I bring this up in the calc group board?
 
Yeah. I'd like to see what happened here, because something isn't right. Vaporization should always, without fail, be higher than melting.
 
Vaporizing is an incorrect term some use on the wiki and in some fiction. Here's the real definition:

Vaporize: convert or be converted into vapor.

"there is a large current that is sufficient to vaporize carbon"


Usually when a character has been "vaporized" they've really just been destroyed or anihilatted on some level. That being said, it is possible to vaporize human bodies, calcs to being a 7-B feat. I don't understand how vaporizing a human is only 7-B while vaporizing a skyscraper is 7-A~ish.
 
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