[Pessimist]

Do any chemists out there know if this is even possible? I mean can a “barrel” of acid (55 gal) really dissolve an entire human corpse?

[Red Badger]

Yes, it is possible, teeth and all................

[WOBBLY BOB]

a barrel of nearly anything liquid will dissolve body parts given enough time... lye is pretty good at that.

[llevrok]

Do any chemists out there know if this is even possible?

I don't any chemists in FR. But my college room mate knew a bit about acid cough, cough

[raccoonradio]

I don’t know if that’s true but in one science fiction/comedy movie,
one character met his demise that way. In “Innerspace”,
an astronaut and his spaceship are miniturized and accidentally injected into the body of a grocery clerk.
Another miniturized man is injected into the clerk’s
bloodstream as well, and he tries to kill the astronaut.

The astronaut (Dennis Quaid) has a way to talk to the
clerk (Martin Short) whose body he’s in.When Quaid is
in the stomach, the “bad guy” tries to get at him and he gets knocked off and falls to his death—in the churning
clerk’s stomach acid.

Short’s character: “What happened to the bad guy?”

Quaid’s char.: “You just digested him.”

Short’s character: (BELCHES)

:)

[GOP_Party_Animal]

Jeffrey Dahmer bought a barrel of acid from the local hardware store for the same purpose. It works.

[rednesss]

"Do any chemists out there know if this is even possible? I mean can a “barrel” of acid (55 gal) really dissolve an entire human corpse?"

I bet a barrel of Coca-Cola would do the same thing. Probably easier to hide the purchase as well.