High Speed Video: liquid N leidenfrost effect shot at 3000 frames per second

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TRY LOOKING AT THE IMAGES IN THE WATER DROP AS IT MOVES.

GIANFRANCO FRONZI SEPTEMBER

[teddy00013]

@codyhjjn thankyou!;)

[VietGnomese]

o i remember modernist cuisine from the colbert report, its writer was a guest

[codyjhhs]

For people who want a simpler explanation of what this effect is, it's basically what you see when you drop a droplet of water into a -very- hot pan and it skitters across it.

[RespectMyHate]

why is liquid nitrogen so cold?

[Kukkaloota]

@RespectMyHate Because it is kept cold in the canister? Obvious thing is obvious.

[iAmDeathSpank]

@RespectMyHate because to turn nitrogen into a liquid you have to make it very cold. Its just like asking why ice is cold, because you have to freeze it.. same with nitrogen...you just make it colder

[RespectMyHate]

@iAmDeathSpank Ok that makes sense, One more question how do you go about making something that cold?

[skonkfactory]

@RespectMyHate Liquid air products like liquid oxygen and liquid nitrogen are made by compressing a gas, cooling the compressed gas to room temperature, and then allowing the gas to escape through a small nozzle. Because pressure, volume and temperature are related, this causes the gas to cool down in proportion to the expansion ratio. Google "Hampton-Linde air liquifier" for more information.

[iAmDeathSpank]

@RespectMyHate What skonkfactory said

[therealplease]

Thumbs up if you had absolutely no idea what you were watching.

[BrokenPiecesOfHeart]

Put in Blue Danube as the song and it'd be perfect.

[magicman112358]

Like if you want the book Modernist Cuisine, but dont have the money

[zavatone]

What was this shot with?

[TheAmie007]

I bet if human being can see at 3000 frame per second , he won't drink again

[flatboat70452]

While I knew about the effect, this photography is great! The ice crystals really show the motion within the droplet, which i never really thought about before. Thanks.

[msndokaralho]

Omg! Stop torturing that poor water drop!

[MorbidMistress13]

@msndokaralho LOL!

[fshfacegurl]

Very very cool!

[marm2k6]

It needs some music

[shortdude07]

The next "Food Network: Nighttime" bumper?

[vitto]

The Leidenfrost effect is a phenomenon in which a liquid, in near contact with a mass significantly hotter than the liquid's boiling point, produces an insulating vapor layer which keeps that liquid from boiling rapidly. to bad the vid doesn't tells that..the legend just tells about cooking..duh

[QtmMtrlzr]

great idea, poor execution. The majority of shots are out of focus or too dark to make any detail out. No high def? Bad ass high speed footage of cool stuff like this requires it.

[itzfresh360]

like if you got here from gizmodo!!

[dave3030]

I wish it was in 720p

[mortulu]

@dave3030 I´d rather buy a pony car instead of a highspeed camera that records in HD resolution..

[d360]

The vapor coming from that droplet actually looks just like the standard (XMB) theme of the Playstation 3 and portable. This should be a dynamic theme !!! :D

[PSPGENIUS714]

Why does this amaze me -_-

[derultrahasi]

beautiful!

[ClydeTorrez]

I am a cook, and I will be looking at what is going on in my pans a little differently tonight! I want this as a screen saver. Beautiful.

[ModernistCuisine]

This video is actually showing drops of liquid nitrogen; ice is from the ladel I was using to produce the drops is what you are seeing trapped inside the nitrogen

[ginmillsinger]

That was VERY cool! :c)

[ronpack]

what's inside the water droplet?

[Teqnyq]

@ronpack A drop of water ;)

[magicsebi]

@ronpack Inside the water droplet is probably just steam because the water quickly evaporates on the contact surface. Also, that layer of steam that is created under the droplet makes it skip across the pan.

[ronpack]

@magicsebi

the guy who made this video says it's liquid nitrogen, not water. so maybe it's some sort of ice inside?

[madwad123]

Wow.