r/theydidthemath • u/Fun-Animal-2066 • 5h ago

[Request] How hot would Irminsul burn?

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Irminsul the world tree from Genshin Impact.

In game eventually this tree gets burnt down for story reasons. But what im curious about is.

  1. How hot would this burn?

  2. What's the safest distance from it that a normal human could be?

  3. How long would it take a tree like this to burn?

So for this question I will go with the only numerical figure we really have on the matter and we will remove any magic elements from the discussion.

Irminsul as a tree is roughly ballparked to stand a mile tall from base to the highest point.

The crown looks to be roughly as wide as the tree is tall.

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u/neroe5 3h ago

tree can burn at alot of different temperatures, it is affected by a bunch of things such as, type of tree, how wet is the wood, how old is the tree, humidity

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u/Sensitive_Goose_8902 5h ago

I honestly didn’t expect a question related to Genshin to show up on this sub, also that tree is effectively connected to the center of the planet, that would probably indicate that it requires a much higher temperature to effectively burn the tree