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Edited by Raw Sugar: 2/5/2014 8:55:33 PM
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If snow is crystallized water can you drown in it?

If snow is crystallized water can you drown in it? I remember one winter my sister and I were lying in the snow, watching it fall around us. Then she curled up and started hacking like a maniac. I started laughing and she's like "Sugar! Stop! I could have died." I said "Greene, stop over reacting what did you do this time?" "Inhaled a snow flake! I could have drowned!" [spoiler]i used our screen names because I don't want anyone knowing mine and I know she feels the same way.[/spoiler] I was laughing so hard I was crying. This story still sticks with me after all those years. It's too funny. So do you guys think it's actually possible though? Is death by snowflake a legit danger?

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  • The ratio of the volume of water to ice is about 1000:1091. The average human male's lungs are 6 liters, so it would take, on average, 6.546 liters of compact snow to drown a human male.

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