Microchips, do they burn

[poiuytrewq]

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!

 

[adamntitch]

Have always wondered the same

 

[Beausmate]

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....

 

[Keith_Beef]

To proof something against the heat of incineration costs money. So my bet is that no, the chip would not be readable, even if you could find it.

 

[Aru]

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...

 

[Keith_Beef]

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...