Answer: The answer is the second choice.
Explanation:
Answer:
See the answer below.
Explanation:
Fire has three major components:
- Heat
- Smoke
- Gases ( in form of CO, CO2 etc)
If the victim had died as a result of the fire, he/he would have inhaled smoke and hot gases from the fire. These components would have resulted in traces of burns and soot deposition in the trachea and lungs as well as traces of CO in the blood of the victim.
If the analysis of the victim's corpse does not reflect some of the results above, it can be effectively concluded that the victim has been dead before the fire.
<em>The single most important indicator of death by the fire would be the presence of CO in the blood of the victim's corpse. All others might be to a less significant degrees.</em>
The general formula of an acid is HX where H+ acts as the cation while X can be a halogen (Cl-, Fl-, Br-, etc) and acts as the anion. There are also cases where X is an ion like SO42-, which brings two atoms of H in the formula. Strong acids dissociate completely while weak acids do not.
