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- From: reb@Ingres.COM (Phydeaux)
- Newsgroups: sci.electronics,alt.folklore.urban
- Subject: Re: SHOCKING STORIES
- Message-ID: <1992Aug12.193416.25072@pony.Ingres.COM>
- Date: 12 Aug 92 19:34:16 GMT
- References: <1992Jul30.164727.28041@news.iastate.edu> <1992Aug11.130839.7907@nntp.nta.no> <7S8IOYI@taronga.com>
- Reply-To: reb@Ingres.COM (Phydeaux)
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- In article <7S8IOYI@taronga.com> arielle@taronga.com (Stephanie da Silva) writes:
- >In article <1992Aug11.130839.7907@nntp.nta.no>, styri@hal.nta.no (YuNoHoo) writes:
- >> In article <1992Aug9.114705.5110@news.iastate.edu>, Anthony Clifton writes:
- >> >Essentially, it works this way: when you have a liquid in contact with ahot
- >> >surface (above a certain temperature) the layer of liquid closest to the
- >> >surface will vaporize. This vapor-layer is a very poor conductor of heat
- >> >so the liquid farther away from the surface doesn't heat up as much.
- >
- >You can very easily test this theory.
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- A housemate in college used this technique to 'drink' liquid nitrogen.
- He put it *into* his mouth and as it started down his throat it
- expanded and vapor came gushing out of his nose and mouth! Quite
- an impressive trick for parties!
- reb
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