Extreme Pressure and Organic Molecules

[Adamand]

Hello all,

I understand that an increase in pressure yeilds an increase in temperature (in gases). However, I was wondering if extreme pressures can raise the temperature of organic molecules (such as the tissues in a human body) to melting point.

Thanks!

 

[Dr Lots-o'watts]

Animal tissue is 70% water. If you squeeze it, that's what you'll get. Cells are little water-balloons that can burst. One-way sponges.

The dried stuff that would be left is practically charcoal, it's solid.

And then depending on what pressure exactly you have in mind, and which temperature cycles and specific environmental conditions, charcoal can eventually become any kind of "fossil fuel", graphite or diamond.

 

[Adamand]

Animal tissue is 70% water. If you squeeze it, that's what you'll get. Cells are little water-balloon that can burst. One-way sponges.

The dried stuff that would be left is practically charcoal, it's solid.

I guess my real question is, what would happen to these "solid" molecules under extreme pressure?

 

[Sakha]

You'll get very impure diamonds.

 

[alxm]

Compression raises the temperature, not the pressure itself. A pressurized gas canister has the same temperature as anything around it, obviously.

So what's the actual question: What the effect of high temperatures is, or what the effect of high pressures is? (or possibly both) And in what conditions?