Thread: Spontaneous Human Combustion - Fact or Fiction?
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Old 04-24-2006, 05:20 AM
Kwaz Kwaz is offline
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Default Re: Spontaneous Human Combustion - Fact or Fiction?
It does not exist.

It is caused by the "wick effect" as someone has pointed out already.

In very basic terms, human fat is the wax and the clothes are the wick.
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