Flash freezing can work, but it’s almost impossible for something as large as a human body.
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TheHooligan95@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 months agothere could be a way maybe, by freezing water while keeping it extremely pressurized, you can make “efficient ice” that occupies less space, called ice VII, I’m not kidding.
Natanael@slrpnk.net 4 months ago
IrritableOcelot@beehaw.org 4 months ago
Cryoprotectants also do this pretty efficiently – they prevent crystallization, which leads to “vitreous” ice, which has more or less the same structure as liquid water and so doesn’t expand much. I think they do use that when freezing people, but the problem is that even if you fill the blood vessels with pure ethylene glycol, it diffuses very slowly, and it takes hours to get into cells which are far from large blood vessels. They dont diffuse the cryoprotectant in that thoroughly, though, because that’d take so long the body would have started to decay too much.