Boiling of Liquid Nitrogen in Slow Motion | The CC-SLOW-MO-SHOW

We had a fair share of fun playing with liquid nitrogen during making this series but what actually happens when it is exposed to ambient temperature? It boils of course, which means that liquid phase nitrogen turns into gas phase nitrogen. Since liquid nitrogen boils already at -195.8 C, the process is even more violent at a scorching temperature of 30 C (we don't get much more in Estonia during summer!). Anyhow, in order to demonstrate the process, we took out our favorite hero, poured liquid nitrogen on it and filmed the process at 5000 fps with our high speed camera. From the video you can actually observe how smaller droplets of liquid nitrogen are quickly evaporating.
The clips for this video were filmed by Captain Corrosion OÜ, a University of Tartu spin-off company and the project is supported by the Estonian Research Council and the Estonian Ministry of Education and Research. The experiments were carried out with the help of the Department of Materials Science, Institute of Physics, University of Tartu and with the assistance of enthusiastic materials science students.

[@j.metayer5792]

Hello captain ! Nice chanel ! I want to become a material engineer too ;) I'm on the way and I'm currently specialized in aqueous surface treatment such as anodizing. You may continue ! It's excellent !

[@CaptainCorrosion]

Thanks! Only hard things are worth doing as fewer others bother with it and this gives you a competitive edge ;) go materials science!