Liquid Nitrogen Vs Trash Can

A 20 oz soda bottle with about 2 oz of liquid nitrogen takes out a 50 gallon trashcan filled with water.

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• Texas
• State
• SPS;
• Liquid
• Nitrogen
• bomb;
• Trash
• can
• explosion

[1979Tron]

Why does this happen? I thought liquid nitrogen was way cold, if anything, it would make the water in the trashcan shrink a little bit as the temperature dropped.

[wh20250]

Liquid nitrogen is extremely cold and boils away at a very low temperature. If you notice at the beginning of the video once the nitrogen is put in the bottle we screw the lid onto the coke bottle. This traps the expanding gas as the nitrogen boils away in the bottle until there is so much pressure built up that the bottle explodes.

[petthekittyz]

why not just use dry ice?

[wh20250]

Dry ice would produce similar results, but to be frank we didn't use dry ice because we had liquid nitrogen.

[Gamer7392]

that is a weak explosion

[utsilove]

lol, we did this at my school, but with a 2 liter. It literally sounded like a bomb went off and water went at least 15 feet in the air. Of course, my teacher forgot to tell the administration, so the whole building was evacuated. Good times

[ihelk]

that seemed like a powerful bomb

[ihelk]

when water freezes it expands