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chloric:
I see. Lubricant of sorts. Gracias for the enlightenment. 
garage chemist:
Apparently, your carpet fibers and tweezers have a glass transition temperature well below that of liquid N<sub>2</sub>.  On this, I can't find a comprenhensive table of glass transition temperatures of
polymers, and from the tables I've seen on the web, just about every common polymer becomes brittle @ liquid N<sub>2</sub>
temperatures.
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Making liquid ammonia with liquid N2
Just a guess
Dry ammonia boils at about -33oC and freezes at -78oC. Dri-ice and acetone is about -78oC and condenses ammonia as a liquid fairly easily, some still
gets out though. I thought of isopropanol or ethyl actate which freeze a round -85oC (some paint thinners should would work). Turpentine freezes at
-60oC to -50oC but it might not cool the ammonia down fast enough to liquify most of it.
You could use the liquid nitrogen to make some low temp ice cubes or the other thing is to add the liq N2 to the solvent cooling bath so there is
always liquid and frozen. Ether gives about -100oC when cooled with liquid N2.
The plastics that are OK at very low temps are usually based on polyethylene.
mick
added a bit
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Something interesting:
Ozone melts @ -192 °C and boils @ -111.9 °C.
Nitrogen is a liquid at temperatures below -195 °C.
Getting the same ideas?
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New experiments with liquid Nitrogen
Today I thought about some interesting - more or less inventive - experiments to try with liquid Nitrogen.
Here are some ideas:
- I'd try to make a "snowball" out of solid Butane. With proper security precautions assumed, one could try to light the snowball and
throw it against a fire resistant concrete wall or the floor. Then, the ball should either blow up in a nice fireball or the chunks will simply burn
on the ground.
I'm serious about this experiment and I am well aware of the dangers involved. The question is: has anyone ever tried such an experiment or am I
the only one foolish enough to attempt this one ?
- Another idea is to SAFELY explode a nitrogen bottle-bomb: A 1,5 litre Coke bottle (plastic, naturally) would FIRST be cooled down in liq. Nitrogen,
THEN filled with some Nitrogen. After capping the bottle, it would instantly be dropped into a large barrel (about 100 litres in size) filled with
about 10-20 litres HOT WATER. The water should provide for a rapid explosion of the bottle. I thought of this experiment as a way to show the
destructive force of expanding Nitrogen without simply putting the bottle on a desk and wait for 20 minutes and the smithereens....
No need to mention any audience/spectator would be advised to stand well away from the barrel. I don't want people to be hit by shrapnel.
As I never did this stunt before, I can only guess it would create a nice little table tsunami....Nevermind, I'll definitely find out soon 
Edit by Chemoleo: Search next time before you post a new thread.
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Sparky, liquid ozone is apparently very unstable and explosive, but then again, since when did THAT put anyone here off experimenting
I wonder, I have read of a further allotrope of oxygen, oxazone, O4, that can be fractionated from liquid ozone, and consisting of a few % of the
volume of liquified ozone.
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Knew someone just had to say that...
That's why I suggested it in the first place!!!
Oxazone? I wonder how it looks like (Lewis structure, at least)? For sure, it's not a ring of four oxygens, or it would be incredibly unstable.
Dioxetane (both isomers) is bad enough already.
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Fun with liquid nitrogen
ifilm java script browser window diplays this streaming video
select your prefered player and connection speed to watch _
http://www.ifilm.com/player/?ifilmId=2744525&pg=default&...
Direct connection _
http://www.ifilm.com/player/?ifilmId=2744525&pg=default&...
Failure to play may mean you need Java runtime, get it here
uninstall Microsoft java first
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well not quite instant iceskate rink but interesting. So what
else can you do with this stuff? I have seen people gargle
with it, yup insane I know. You can flash freeze a durable
steel part such as a padlock and shatter it with a blow of
a hammer. Useful for certain exotic chem synthesis.
Post other uses or ideas.
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You can freeze glass stirbars utterly and then drop them gently on the floor, they will shatter into 1000 pieces at least
you can freeze the toilets with it so flushing won't work anymore.
You can freeze someone else's plastic pen with it and see them crunch it when he grabs it.
You can freeze buthane with it while it's in the cillinder and then cut off the cillinder to collect the now waxlike butane to play with it.
the list goes on and on and on...
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Theres superconductivity (with 'high-temperature' superconductors that work at liquid N temperatures) to play with. You can liquify oxygen and do
things like pour it over magnets (Its magnetic) or over flammible stuff and incenerate/explode it.
You can liquify/solidify gasses that you wouldnt be able to at dry ice temperatures.
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I can't get the video to play. Can someone possibly rip it and upload it here?
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| Quote: | Originally posted by neutrino
Overclocking isn’t necessarily cooling the processor. Rather, it’s modifying the processor’s instructions
in some way to run faster. This generates heat which tends to fry the chip, which is why you need a good
cooling system. I have heard of making chips run faster by cooling |
August 2005
A Japanese overclocker has managed to overclock Intel Pentium 4
670 microprocessor to 7.132GHz and even run certain benchmarks on
the system that was cooled down by liquid nitrogen.
According to the posted statement, the system managed to calculate
π (pi) number to 1 million decimal places in 18.516 seconds, which
is currently the world’s record.
In order to accomplish the extreme overclocking Japanese
enthusiast Memesana, who published his results at XtremeSystems
web-site, used ASUS P5WD2 Premium mainboard based on Intel’s i955X
core-logic, Corsair PC2-5400UL 512MB memory modules as well as
Intel Pentium 4 670 processor with stock speed of 3.80GHz. The
processor system bus was overclocked to 1520MHz; processor’s
voltage was pumped up to 1.70V, significantly higher than default
setting; memory latency settings were CL4-3-3-4 memory voltage was
set to 2.3V.
See Picture -> http://img14.imagevenue.com/img.php?loc=loc265&image=288...
How To -> http://www.tomshardware.com/2003/12/30/5_ghz_project/index.h...
| Quote: | Originally posted by neutrino
you get a nice, smooth ice cream because a.the nitrogen vaporizes
very quickly, preventing big crystals from growing |
An icecream vender at a retail Mall sold scoops of ice cream pellets
that were made by dripping the batter as droplets into liquid nitrogen.
Flash frozen like this it becomes a material termed a glass without
crystal structure. Because glass is a poor conductor of heat and a
phase change from crytal state is not possible, these pellets resisted
melting remaining solid and cold for far longer than ordinary icecream.
Removing chewing gum or even solidified epoxy resin that has been worked
into a carpet is possible once frozen like glass. Wet with some naptha
tap with a hammer and brush.
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That reminds me... I recently watched a show on metals (Modern Marvels) where part of it was on metalic glass. I think they use liquid N to cool the
metal very quickly and preventing crystals from forming, which makes it much stronger.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metallic_Glass
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An icecream vender at a retail Mall sold scoops of ice cream pellets that were made by dripping the batter as droplets into liquid nitrogen.
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I think the company your talking about is Dippin' Dots?
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Resources _
http://www.justnitrogen.com
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Where do you get the nitrogen?
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Try putting a big marshmallow in it for a few seconds. The outside gets crunchy.
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Liquid N2 in a swimming pool
These links from youtube are better than the others I had above
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XCtdW_BDuVI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w2mj-Sq2oeo
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I like the butane snowball idea. Obviously, just be very careful with that. If you made a tiny mold from a bit of pipe or what not, you could freeze
it into pellets and then blow pipe them onto a hard surface with a fire under it.
An old physics lab demonstrate is to dunk a filled balloon in it. It'll shrivel up to nothing, then re-expand when taken out.
If you're trying to make you're own ice cream don't fill a blender with it and then turn it on, as they do in this video
Here's NurdRage doing some things with liquid nitrogen;
Freezing ice
Breaking a heart, a whole body actually takes around 18h to reach cryogenic temperatures
Lowering the resistance of coils, if you dunk an LED in there, it's output should massively ramp up, as it will for a laser diode
Freezing acetone
Dunking his hand in it
Same again, but with some slow motion footage of the gas shroud
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I've frozen an iron pipe (maybe around 4cm in diameter) female attachment in liquid nitrogen. After a few moments, the metal became very brittle and
simple blows from a hammer could break it up into pieces (at regular temperatures, these would just cause indentations). A small piece of aluminium
foil rolled up into a ball and let sit in the nitrogen, then taken out after a few moments, only caused the foil piece to get flattened when hit with
the hammer.
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minor threadhijack: buying liquid nitrogen?
Gents, I have some experiments I'd like to try with liquid nitrogen. However, before trying to buy any, I'd like your advice on some points primarily
surrounding how to purchase. My main concern is that anyone selling it, isn't going to sell to anyone who doesn't understand what they're doing.
I know I need a dewar. Beyond that, what is a source you all would suggest (preferably online) for getting training/education on all the safety
issues relating to handling and transport?
Also, any suggestions about the best places/methods of approaching vendors about purchasing dewar quantities? I live in a large city that has
Mathieson Trigas, Air Liquide, and other gas vendors. What I don't know is if you can walk into the plant, or do they distribute through middle-men,
etc.
What do you suggest?
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Quote: Originally posted by chemoleo  | I am in a somewhat lucky position, having access to liquid N2 anytime.
Can anyone think of interesting experiments to do with it? |
Some use it in cooking.
Blumenthal-Style Chef Blows Off His while experimenting with a
Heston Blumenthal-style cooking technique.
10:44am UK, Tuesday July 14, 2009
A German chef has blown off his hands while experimenting with a
Heston Blumenthal-style cooking technique.
Liquid nitrogen used by some chefs as an instant cooler for food
The man, identified only as Martin E, was working on a recipe
involving liquid nitrogen when there was "a huge explosion",
according to the Berliner Morgenpost.
One of the 24-year-old's hands was instantly torn off by the force
of the blast, while the other was later amputated in hospital.
The explosion happened at his girlfriend's mother's house in
Stahnsdorf, near Berlin, where both women escaped without
injury.
The chef, a follower of "molecular gastronomy", had disappeared
into the bathroom with a bottle of liquid nitrogen.
He reportedly said afterwards he had been trying to fill a gas
lighter but his 16-year-old girlfriend said he was attempting to empty the bottle.
The young woman called the emergency services, who decided to
airlift the chef to hospital in a helicopter.
Scientific chef Blumenthal
Liquid nitrogen is pure nitrogen at a very low temperature, which
must be stored in special containers.
Its low boiling point, at -196C, means it can cause frostbite in
humans upon contact while it can also generate an explosion if the
liquid is vaporised into gas too quickly.
Cooking with liquid nitrogen was made famous by Blumenthal, the
celebrity chef known for his scientific approach in the kitchen.
Diners at his restaurant, The Fat Duck in Bray, Berkshire, are
treated to a green tea and lime mousse poached at their table in
the substance.
Blumenthal also used liquid nitrogen to attempt to break the world
record for making ice cream by using it as a coolant.
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There was some discussion of this when it was first published, so
via. Google.com/news I pulled up the German newspaper accounts
and ran them through Yahoo Babble Fish.
He had taken some LN2 home in a container whose name I cannot
recall that was never/ever intended to be pressurized. The explosion occurred in his bathroom therefor I would posit he was
running it under hot water in an attempt to open it.....!
Noted in passing.
Harold McGee
On Food and Cooking : The Science and Lore of the Kitchen.
Simon and Schuster
1984
684 pages.
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Now that's an interesting one!
Perhaps due to the ductility of aluminium? Iron tends to be full of carbon trying to crystalise, as well as sulphur. Both are added to improve wear
resistance and ?youngs modulus?, but both begin killing the ductility / elasticity. In the extreme of some cast irons, they'll (as you likely know)
snap as if they're made of glass when hit sharply. Tool stools, high in carbon, have a tendency to do it (shattering machine tools etc).
I have seen a fair bit of what is likely quakery around LN2. When you combine something as mystical looking and extreme property bearing with the
world of high end, very high price audio equipment, opinions that routinely deny statistical testing by their own claimants and thermionic valves, you
get LN2 treated thermionic valves, "for that super cool sound!"
In the UK, the liquid air people won't tap some off for you if you turn up. My local yards, which are big and packed full of cylinders (even odd ones)
don't store the dewars. They're specially ordered and delivered. Indeed, you don't take your dewar back, they drive round with a truck that can
dispense cryogens and pump it off with something that looks and acts exactly like a very cold petrol pump. Of coarse, there are special fees for that
privilege.
In the US, I suspect you'll have more luck getting it on tap.
With regards to storing it, a thermos will work. The only really important thing to remember is that you need a little hole drilled in the lid. If you
screw the lid on minus this hole, the thermos will explode as you drive home; which won't be fun at all, particularly if it's an all metal one. I
would quite adamantly say that if you're planning to pick it up soon, and didn't realize that, you should certainly not pick it up soon.
Obviously, fix it in place so it won't topple as well. Not a big problem if it does, but you're LN2 will empty out all over the floor and rapidly
disappear.
Having some genuine, significant sounding reason when you ask for it is probably a good idea as well.
E.g. "I want to do cool shit with it" <---- reworded to something equally basic, will make them assume you're going to hurt yourself or someone,
resulting in them potentially getting a law suit filed letter, for the sake of making $1 on it.
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N2 Safety and Practice
http://www.chem.purdue.edu/chemsafety/Chem/ln2.htm
Make your own
http://www.instructables.com/community/Make-your-own-liquid-...
http://hackaday.com/2010/06/10/making-liquid-nitrogen-at-hom...
Commercial liquifaction equipment
http://www.elan2.com
http://www.elan2.com/product_elan2office.asp
http://www.elan2.com/product_elan2office_operation.asp
http://www.elan2.com/media/pdf/elan2TechBrief.pdf
The short arm of the law:
A liquid nitrogen dewar fill station may deny you buying it ,
but you can buy human fat in it, no questions asked.
http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE5AJ2YB20091120
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Fun with Dry Ice
http://books.google.com/books?id=T-IDAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA925&a...
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