What is Incineration? Is it similar to Vaporisation?

[King]

Nothing else, just as the title suggests. I would like to know for a calc I am doing right now.

 

[King]

Can someone reply?

 

[Omnificence]

Incineration means an engineered process involving burning or combustion of solid waste to thermally degrade waste materials at high temperatures; or to put it bluntly, it's the process of burning any substance to where nothing but ashes remain of it. If you were to take a material such as leaves or paper and light the said material on fire, you would be incinerating it.

Vaporization is when an element or compound is a phase transition from the liquid phase to vapor. In layman's terms, it's the conversion of a solid or a liquid into a gas. Specifically, if you were to take a pot/skillet and fill it with water then leave it on the stove to boil, the water would be converted to steam, and thus you'd be vaporizing the water.

 

[Blahblah9755]

Since incineration involves a chemical change, it’s not typically a reversible process. From a vs standpoint, this means if something’s entirely incinerated, it’s more difficult to regenerate than if it’s vaporized. It also is why burns are often depicted as stopping regeneration in fiction.

From a calc standpoint, combusting something to incinerate it will pretty much always require less energy than vaporization. If something is combustible, then that means it chemically decomposes before it’s molecules can become excited enough to become gases, so the heat and energy required has to be lower. Additionally, when something combusts, the breakdown can create additional heat, so not all the energy has to come from the character that started it (for instance, when you light a match, the energy of the flame is significantly more than the friction you used to ignite it).

 

[King]

Since incineration involves a chemical change, it’s not typically a reversible process. From a vs standpoint, this means if something’s entirely incinerated, it’s more difficult to regenerate than if it’s vaporized. It also is why burns are often depicted as stopping regeneration in fiction.

From a calc standpoint, combusting something to incinerate it will pretty much always require less energy than vaporization. If something is combustible, then that means it chemically decomposes before it’s molecules can become excited enough to become gases, so the heat and energy required has to be lower. Additionally, when something combusts, the breakdown can create additional heat, so not all the energy has to come from the character that started it (for instance, when you light a match, the energy of the flame is significantly more than the friction you used to ignite it).

Oh, so that's why super mouse couldn't regenerate after being hit by Rover's blast....

 

[XXKINGXX69]

It wont scale to kinetic energy or striking strength

 

[King]

Oh, I forgot this thread was still open. The matter has been dealt with. I'll ask someone to close this.

 

[Duedate8898]

Closing!