User blog:ArbitraryNumbers/Pokemon Wack Calcs

Melting Elephants
Charizard's dex entry says that its flame can melt 16 indian elephants in a row. Apparently, human flesh doesn't really melt, it just burns, so instead of melting I'll assume vaporization.

I will be using this calc as a reference. This is going to be a very rough calc. If you want any sources, look to that calc as I basically copied the same method, only scaling everything up to accommodate for the difference in size between a human and an elephant.

First we'll need to establish that an elephant's body temperature is only about two degrees celsius lower than that of a humans, so I will assume that the temperature change here, just like in the calc linked above, is 944.72 degrees celsius.

The average human body mass is 62 kg and a male indian elephant can weigh up to 12,000 kg. That is a difference of about 193x, so I will be multiplying each mass value for the human body by that much and applying vaporization to that. Hope that sentence made sense.

Water
60% of the human body is water, or 37.2 kilograms. Multiplying that by 193 gets us 7179.6 kg. The specific heat capacity of water is 4.1813 kilojoules per kg. Plugging those values into this calculator gets us 283,605,525 joules.

Body Fat
17% of the human body is body fat, or 10.54 kg. Multiplying that by 193 gets us 2034.22 kg. The specific heat capacity of water is 2.348 kilojoules per kg. Plugging those values into the same calculator from before gets us 45,123,120 joules.

Protein
16% of the human body is protein, or 9.92 kg. Multiplying that by 193 gets us 1914.56 kg. The specific heat capacity of water is 1013 kj per kg. Plugging those values into the same calculator from before gets us 18,322,365 joules.

Minerals
6% of the human body is minerals, or 3.75 kg. Multiplying that by 193 gets us 723.75 kg. The specific heat capacity of the cortical bone (which we're using for this) is 1.313 kj per kg. Plugging that into the same calculator from before gets us 8,977,521 joules.

Carbohydrates
1% of the human body is carbohydrates, or 0.62 kg. Multiplying that by 193 gets us 119.66 kg. The specific heat capacity of carbohydrates is 1.255 kj per kg. Plugging those values into the same calculator from before gets us 1,418,717 joules.

Final Step
1,418,717 + 8,977,521 + 45,123,120 + 283,605,525 = 339,124,883 joules, or 0.08 tons of TNT per elephant.

Multiplying that by 16 gives us 1.3 tons of TNT - Building level.

Pretty underwhelming as I was hoping for Multi-City Block level+ at the very least.

Xeraphox's Black Hole
Coming later.

Lunighton Influences the Tides
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