Poor Man's Liquid Nitrogen

Inspired by Bill Beaty's video and website, my own version of the poor man's liquid nitrogen. Dry ice is put in 99% methanol allowing you to do experiments similar to the standard liquid nitrogen experiments. It will freeze flowers, leaves, small fruit or vegetables as well as some plastics and rubbers. DO NOT TOUCH, this stuff will burn your skin almost instantly. DO NOT EAT, you can freeze food items in this but the methanol is poison and will kill you or make you sick so you can not eat them. NO SMOKING, methanol is flammable and everything you put in will come out with a flammable coating of alcohol.

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Science & Technology

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• dry
• ice
• liquid
• nitrogen
• freeze
• cold
• experiment
• lab
• home
• made

[clintongraham]

are you a canadian??

[nik282000]

@clintongraham How did you guess?

[MrSweet1007]

will eat freeze a chain.. enough so i can brake it with a hammer??



[nik282000]

@MrSweet1007 I really doubt it. If you want to make metal brittle enough to break from hitting it then you are better off heat treating it.

[hustal69]

@nik282000 can you try to put a coin in and see if it wanna crack?

[nik282000]

@hustal69 Dry ice isn't really cold enough to make most metals brittle.

[clintongraham]

@nik282000 by the way you said "out"

[clintongraham]

by the way you said "out" lol

[hustal69]

@nik282000 so what can be use to make most metals brittle?:p

[MrSweet1007]

@nik282000 aww ok man thanks