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		hinkley on July 18, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Backyard Metalcasting (2018) I'm not sure why you'd classify everything up to destroying the skin as 1-3 and then label 4 as destroying bone. This one goes to six: https://nigms.nih.gov/education/fact-sheets/Pages/burns.aspx

rewmie on July 18, 2023 [–]

> I'm not sure why you'd classify everything up to destroying the skin as 1-3 and then label 4 as destroying bone.

I'd wager that from a medical standpoint there is no functional difference between burning through fat layer, or going even deeper and hitting muscle and/or bone.

hinkley on July 18, 2023 | [–]

And yet the NIH says six.

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