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i live in georgia

2007-10-24 10:02:12 · 2 answers · asked by Tanesha S 1 in Science & Mathematics Physics

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It's rather common and inexpensive. Besides the companies providing liquified gases to industry, a convenient source for small quantities could be a local dermatologist, who uses it to 'burn' off warts. It's quite safe, and rather inert chemically. The risk of freezing damage is obvious if a significant quantity gets on your skin. You can carry it in a reqular quart coffee thermos, but keep it vented. You'll lose some to evaporation, but you won't build up pressure and burst the container. Use a vacuum bottle thermos, not a plastic one. If you pour a lot of it suddenly into water, like a pool, it will evaporate very quickly and 'explode'.

2007-10-24 16:31:04 · answer #1 · answered by Frank N 7 · 0 0

You can buy liquid nitrogen from many industrial suppliers. Look under "refrigerated gases". It is quite cheap. Your bigger problem might be transport and storage because you need a dewar if you want to keep it for any useful length of time.

I certainly would NOT want to transport any of it in the back of my car (which might be forbidden, anyway). And I wouldn't want to store it near my home, either. While technically not very challenging to get it right, an accident with even a medium sized dewar can give you a bad day... and I doubt your home insurance will cover the damage to the floor or the blown out windows. Not sure about your health insurance, either, unless you are affiliated with and trained by a properly licensed facility.

And there are even ways to make serious chemical explosions with liquid nitrogen and some of that happens to be purely accidental if it isn't handled properly.

So there is plenty of fun AND some risk. Just like with fireworks.

Just a few random thought.

2007-10-24 10:13:22 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0 1

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