Random quenching of 800 MHz NMR spectrometer at NMRFAM

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Uploaded by on Dec 1, 2011

On November 30, 2011 the Varian 800 MHz NMR spectrometer at NMRFAM spontaneously (read: randomly) quenched. What you are witnessing is large amounts of liquid helium vented out as gaseous helium. Let's just say this wasn't cheap.

Sadly, due to the unexpected nature of this quench I don't have the initial explosion. But the really fun aspect of this quench is that it happened during a tour for first year biochemistry graduate students!

Enjoy.

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