Liquid nitrogen

Liquid nitrogen
A demonstration of liquid nitrogen at the Freeside maker space in Atlanta, Georgia, during the Online News Association conference in 2013
Students preparing homemade ice cream with a dewar of liquid nitrogen

Liquid nitrogen (LN2) is nitrogen in a liquid state at low temperature. Liquid nitrogen has a boiling point of about −196 °C (−321 °F; 77 K). It is produced industrially by fractional distillation of liquid air. It is a colorless, mobile liquid whose viscosity is about one-tenth that of acetone (i.e. roughly one-thirtieth that of water at room temperature). Liquid nitrogen is widely used as a coolant.


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