Scientists have discovered the cause behind the change of a young man for the glass after the explosion of Mount Vesuvius in Italy in 79 AD.
In 2020, researchers found the victim’s skull and black, glass substance inside the spinal cord. Now, a study states that the formation of glass in the victim’s brain may be due to fossil brain tissue.
Guido Gyordano, the lead writer of a volcano and study of the Roma Train University in Rome, said that the person’s body tissue would have been heated above 950 degrees Fahrenheit before cooling and turning into glass. The process is called vitrification.
“Obesidian glass, namely, a glass of volcano, when the lava cools very quickly, for example, where it enters the water,” said Mr. Giyordano.
According to scientists, the pyroquetics flow, which includes rapidly growing volcanic materials and dangerous gas from Mount Vesuvius, was not heated enough to convert the victim’s brain into glass.
Scientists said that these flows reached a maximum temperature of 465 ° C and cooled very slowly for vitrification.
Rather, researchers feel that at that time a small but highly hot ash cloud can cause vitridified in the person’s brain. Some scientists, however, remain suspicious because the soft tissue should be made aware of extremely special circumstances before it becomes glass.
The young man’s spine and the skull probability stopped the heat from completely destroying their brain, allowing some to turn into a unique substance that looked like a glass.
Archaeologists revealed the sacred remains of the victim in the 1960s, which were said to be about 20 years old during the volcanic explosion. He found the victim’s skull in the coastal city of Harkulanam.
However, in 2018, Italian humanist Pear Paolo saw something shiny inside a man’s skull and started investigating it. When he came to know that the victim’s brain turned black and he had pieces of glass, which is extremely rare.
Previous research has shown that neurons and proteins were preserved in the person’s brain, Giyordano said. This discovery has the ability to change some of the principles about the effects and sequence of events during the Mount Vesuvius explosion.
