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Uploaded by on Aug 22, 2007

On Saturdays the Microcosm museum does a free demonstration on the handy uses of liquid Nitrogen. Here's just one use...

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  • I think it was Nitrogen, yes. And it took him about five attempts to do it so that the balloon would fully expand when it came out without exploding!

    The reason it explodes is that some parts of the balloon stick together or gets twisted. The air in the balloon is the same volume at room temp it always was... but the space it's given to fill due to the twisting is smaller, hence the *POP*. It's impossible for it to expand any larger than it was when it went in unless room temp is raised also!

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  • if i am not mistaken....he put the baloon in a very cold chemical..nitrogen???? dude to the reduce of energy in the air particle, the baloon become smaller...in the tin...In the end..the baloon expend when the baloon expose to some heat in room temperature....Kabooomm...

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