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Here I hope to share with you some of the excitement of Chemistry, and provide a resource that students of all ages can use as a way to complement their studies and fuel their interest in a fascinating subject.

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Thursday, 10 July 2008

liquid nitrogen bomb

Liqiud nitrogen boils at a temperature of −196 °C and since the liquid to gas expansion ratio is 1:694 it will very quickly build up enough pressure to make it quite unsafe to seal into an empty plastic bottle.