Liquid Nitrogen


Droplets of liquid
nitrogen on table top.

Exploding film can.

Mini-geyser

Shrinking balloon.

Bimetallic strip

Liquid nitrogen has a temperature of 77 K at standard atmospheric pressure. Being about one-fourth of room temperature, this is low enough to produce some interesting phenomena. Liquid nitrogen can be held for several hours in a vacuum flask.

Liquid nitrogen is cold enough to be below the superconducting transition of the high temperature superconductors like YBaCuO.

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Liquid nitrogen and superconductors
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