Fun with liquid nitrogen

Monday, February 20, 2006
10:06 PM
tricksy

Fun with liquid nitrogen: "David Pescovitz:
Here's a massive list '1001 things to do with liquid nitrogen.' Two examples:

Freeze a can of shaving cream and then peel the can away from the
cream. Put the canless cream into someone's car. Let the oven-like
heat from the car's sitting in the sun defrost the shaving cream.
2 cans will fill an entire car. (Coulter C. Henry, Jr.)...


Try taking a ping-pong ball and poking a small hole in it. The hole has to be tangent
to the sphere of the ball. When poking the hole use a pin and the pin should be almost
flat agianst the ball. Basiclly you want a hole in the side of the ball that will cause
the ball to spin. Submerge this ball into the liquid nitrogen and let it fill up.
Place the ball on a table and watch it spin. As the nitrogen goes back to a gas it will
rush out the hole and presto!! It's pretty cool. If it does not spin try placing your
hand on it to warm it to get it started.

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UPDATE: Thanks to all the readers who point out that the shaving cream prank doesn't seem to work. Link

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(Via Boing Boing.)