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Owen135731
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Well, this has been on my mind for some time. It is a pretty simple question though. From current knowledge, if I stuck a bunch of teeth in a fire, it would act in such a way that would help stop the fire, no? Teeth are hard, so they would not burn.



PSThis OP is most likely very bad. Please, just answer the question. The OP was not very organized, but I am too lazy to change it. Much like the way I am not going to change the fact that I just said the same thing twice).

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thoadthetoad
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Teeth are hard,

And so is wood, but it's notorious for burning.

I would say that they're not necesarrily fire retardent, but possibly fire resistant. They don't burn well sinc ethey're made out of bone after all.
Kragoth
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That something is hard does not mean it doesn't burn.
Charcoal is hard, yet burns.

Everything burns at the right temperature.

But seeing as you probably didn't have a fire of several thousands of degrees (C) it probably wouldn't burn.
Teeth are mainly made from calcium, and that doesn't burn very well.

Nater
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they can burn but as thoad said it would be hard burning them

thepossum
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I would say teeth can be burned, it's just difficult. Remember a guy named Hitler? They only identified his body by his notoriously bad teeth because someone had tried to cremate his body. Luckily, it didn't finish burning and his teeth remained.

Kyouzou
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That's also how they gather DNA from a destroyed crime scenes, watch CSI or NCIS you'll see it in action, atleast as well as Hollywood can do it.

Falcon4415
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Actually, we now know that what which we thought to be hitler's skull, picked up at Berlin by the Red Army is not Hitler's, and that's scientifical (could he be living in an island with Elvis, Bruce Lee and Michael Jackson?????? :P)

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Does teeth burn? Yes.
At what temperature? 1000 F/~540 C
How was this information retrieved? Google.

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