Algor mortis, or postmortem cooling of the body, varies with ambient temperatures. Based on the results of your experiment, how does ambient temperature affect the rate of cooling of a body after death? explain your answer. Include how this might affect the use of the glaister equation in determining the time of death.



Answer :

The ambient temperature affect the rate of cooling of a body after death occurs depends on the temperature differential between the body and the environment.

How long does it take for the body to cool down after death?

Once vital functions cease, the body cools at an average of 1°C to 1.5°C per hour. Considering that the average temperature of a human being is between 36 °C and 37 °C, the corpse reaches the ambient temperature in 24 hours at most.

The higher the ambient temperature, the more important the evaporative heat loss will be. In fact, when ambient temperature is higher than body temperature, the only way to lose heat is through evaporation. Human beings lose heat through sweating.

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