Microchips, do they burn

poiuytrewq

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When an animal is incinerated would the microchip still be intact/scannable?
What do they look like, would one be difficult to find in ashes?

Disclaimer, I fully admit I’m probably looking the plot here but humour me!
 

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OH (software engineer) reckons that due to some of the chip components (such as aluminum) being adversely affected by heat, it would no longer function.

They look a bit like glass rice grains. Not sure what kind of glass they are encapsulated in, but that may well be destroyed too.

Curiouser and curiouser....
 

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yep. They burn but you still have little fragments left behind. Ashes often have lots of bone fragments etc unless the crem company grinds them extra to dust after cremation. I think its pacemakers that explode...
 

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yep. They burn but you still have little fragments left behind. Ashes often have lots of bone fragments etc unless the crem company grinds them extra to dust after cremation. I think its pacemakers that explode...

Which is why they are removed before cremation...
 
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