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<blockquote data-quote="Dannyalcatraz" data-source="post: 3185630" data-attributes="member: 19675">Yeah, pretty much.Really, if you're talking about immersion in gold but liquid water, you're really talking about either hypothermia, or death by shock, but not frostbite.With hypothermia, instead of damaging your extremities with intense cold, your body simply exhausts its energy reserves trying to heat the surrounding liquid to body temperature while simultaneously keeping your organs running.&nbsp; Eventually, your organs are simply too cold to function properly, and you die.&nbsp; This takes a while, depending upon the temperature of the liquid and the amount of it.&nbsp; In relatively warm water- say 70 or so degrees, it could take days.&nbsp; In the arctic, it would take 20 minutes, I'd guess.&nbsp; (There is, however, a growing body of evidence about how people have been brought back after hypothermic events.)With shock, the intense cold screws up your cardio-pulmonary system in seconds.&nbsp; Your heart stops or you have a stroke, you die.Oh yeah...IANAD!</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Dannyalcatraz, post: 3185630, member: 19675"] Yeah, pretty much. Really, if you're talking about immersion in gold but liquid water, you're really talking about either hypothermia, or death by shock, but not frostbite. With hypothermia, instead of damaging your extremities with intense cold, your body simply exhausts its energy reserves trying to heat the surrounding liquid to body temperature while simultaneously keeping your organs running. Eventually, your organs are simply too cold to function properly, and you die. This takes a while, depending upon the temperature of the liquid and the amount of it. In relatively warm water- say 70 or so degrees, it could take days. In the arctic, it would take 20 minutes, I'd guess. (There is, however, a growing body of evidence about how people have been brought back after hypothermic events.) With shock, the intense cold screws up your cardio-pulmonary system in seconds. Your heart stops or you have a stroke, you die. Oh yeah...IANAD! [/QUOTE]

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