What do you get when you take a super-saturated solution of Gypsum, apply even heat from a magma chamber, let it sit for 500,000 years, and then pump out all the water? Big crystals. Up to 36′ long and 14′ across and weighing 55 tons. The fragile, icy-looking selenite crystals belie the cave's deadly heat. In the few steps from the tunnel to the opening of the cave, temperatures go from miserably warm to hotter than Hades — 150 degrees with 100-percent humidity, making it impossible for humans to survive more than a few minutes. According to Giuseppe Giovine, an Italian physician who attended a group of scientists allowed to explore and document the cave, when temperatures rise above 113 degrees, the body tries to shed heat. But in 100-percent humidity, sweat cannot evaporate. The heat is trapped inside the body. Within five minutes, Giovine said, cells start to die. One after another, organs fail. Article at: http://truemaskedwabbit.blogspot.com/...
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