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Article #1222Re: Transporting Liquid Nitrogen
From: Kim G. S. yhus
Date: Fri, 28 Jul 1995 00:00
Date: Fri, 28 Jul 1995 00:00
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I use a stainless steel thermos. Glass thermos will probably break. I have tried glass dewars too, but these were made from 0.5 cm thick pyrex glass. I once had a friend of mine holding the thermos while i was pouring liquid nitrogen from the 50 litre thermos. Unfortunately I accidentally poured rather a lot over his fingers. He immediately lost the thermos, and started studying his fingers with a speed and expression of pure panic. He looked quite relieved when he found out he were all right. Maybe I should have told him that a couple of seconds contact with liquid nitrogen is harmless, because of an air cushion effect when the nitrogen boils due to the high temperature of skin. However, after a very few seconds that effect disappears, and you get instant frostbite, or skin death if you wait. Kim0
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 14fb78,a868d50f4dbf4421 X-Google-Attributes: gid14fb78,public X-Google-Thread: 10b271,a868d50f4dbf4421 X-Google-Attributes: gid10b271,public X-Google-Thread: fcea6,a868d50f4dbf4421 X-Google-Attributes: gidfcea6,public X-Google-Thread: f804b,a868d50f4dbf4421 X-Google-Attributes: gidf804b,public From: kim@pvv.unit.no (Kim G. S. \yhus) Subject: Re: Transporting Liquid Nitrogen Date: 1995/07/28 Message-ID: <3vaih0$c7h@due.unit.no> X-Deja-AN: 107077539 references: <20JUL199513002157@orion.cmc.uab.edu> <ts_zemanian-2007951158120001@ts_zemanian.pnl.gov> <dougDC2wA2.IJs@netcom.com> organization: ProgramVareVerkstedet newsgroups: sci.misc,sci.technique.xtallography,bionet.xtallography,sci.physics