Friday, May 15, 2015

1500 Ping Pong Balls + Liquid Nitrogen + Trash Can






1. Step one: fill a bottle with liquid nitrogen






2. Step two: close the bottle, throw it in the garbage can, fill it with ping pong balls






3. Step three: cover your ears






4. Step four: clean up






5. Here’s the original video





It’s not entirely clear what this demo is trying to teach, beyond this: the reason the bottle explodes is because liquid nitrogen becomes a gas at room temperature. Nitrogen takes up more space as a gas than as a liquid, causing the closed bottle to rupture violently. The ping pong balls, I think, are mostly just for show.



Read more: http://buzzfeed.com/jwherrman/1500-ping-pong-balls-liquid-nitrogen-trash-can




1500 Ping Pong Balls + Liquid Nitrogen + Trash Can

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