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In article <Pine.SOL.3.91.960118230741.4974B-100000@howard>, Patrick
O'Neil <patrick@howard.genetics.utah.edu> wrote:

> On 18 Jan 1996, Chad Irby wrote:
> 
> > A 300 MHz PPro won't be much fun if you have to buy a quart of liquid 
> > nitrogen every time you want to recalc a spreadsheet.
> 
> Oh I don't know.  Have you ever played with a quart or two of liquid 
> nitrogen?  Load a microfuge tube with about 100 ul of it and you get a 
> real impressive explosion.
> 

That's a strange statement. I've worked with hundreds of liters of liquid
N2 and never had a problem. Liquid nitrogen is very inert and hardly
reacts with anything. It won't explode under any circumstances I know of
(that is if you're using "explode" in the same manner as the rest of the
world meaning an uncontrolled, violent chemical reaction).

Of course, you should never confine a liquified gas in a sealed container.
Is that what you did?

-- 
Regards,       Joe Ragosta

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