Aquamation is the reduction of the body by a chemical process, not a flame process. In traditional cremation, the soft tissue is removed with fire. In aquamation, the tissues are dissolved into water. What remains after either process are the bones of the deceased....
The alkaline hydrolysis (AH) process, also referred to as aquamation, has actually been around over a century in use with animals that have passed. The process is quite simple: Water is heated to about 300 degrees (f) with a chemical called sodium hydroxide. This...
NO! Hearkening back to high school chemistry that none of us listened to, you might recall the pH scale – one end of the scale is acid 0 and on the other end of the scale is alkali 14. Distilled water in the middle is a comfy 7. The aquamation process is...
Because aquamation involves heating water under pressure, there is certainly an energy input in the process, but it is significantly lower than that of flame based cremation. The total amount of energy used is only 10% of the energy that is used for flame based...
Aquamation has many names – Alkaline hydrolysis, resomation, water cremation, dissolution and aquamation. All of them refer to the same process – reducing the human body “ashes” by removing the soft tissue in an alkaline solution. Because this...
