X-Message-Number: 5088
Date: 01 Nov 95 13:45:08 EST
From: yvan Bozzonetti <>
Subject: High presure cryonics

>	Re Bob Ettinger's suggestion of flash freezing a brain by
>suddenly releasing hyperbaric pressure: Where does the heat of
>fusion go?  Seems to me that only a small portion of the brain 
>would freeze until the released heat would raise the temperature
>back to 0'C, and the process would stop.
>
>---Brian Wowk

When presure drops, temperature does the same. I would guess that phenomenon
dominates the whole picture because, on a thermodynamical ground, it is more
fundamental than B. Wowk's pointed out effect. There may be other problems, but
not that one.

	Y.B.


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