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Subject: Re: Thermal Burn Injury -- Why Does it Appear *White*?
Date: 2 Jan 2006 21:53:29 -0800
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>Well, you baked the water out of some collagen.
>
>If you burn yourself good enough, you'll hit blood vessels and then it
>looks like raw hamburger.
>
>All you did was to bake the water out of collagen. It loses it's
>translucent properties, and starts to look more like high-density
>poluethylene - and it aint really all that different (generally
>speaking) - collagen is just a very amazing living plastic.


What do you mean by "bake the water out of"?

There was no dehydration at all.


The temperature of the plate wasn't high enough to dehydrate the skin
in the region it touched.


AFAIK, the water content in the skin of the burn region was no
different from the skin on the rest of my body.


So back to my question: Why did the burn look white even though it
wasn't dehydrated?