Make Your Own Comet

[Johnny Pneumatic]

Have fun.

 

[geni]

What is this wear gloves while handleing dry ice nonsence?

 

[Johnny Pneumatic]

What is this wear gloves while handleing dry ice nonsence?

You wanna' hold something that is -78.5°C? Be my guest.

 

[RussDill]

Gloves? Gloves? Gloves are for inferior organic beings.

 

[geni]

You wanna' hold something that is -78.5°C? Be my guest.

Been there seen it done it.

 

[BillC]

You wanna' hold something that is -78.5°C? Be my guest.

In my younger and sillier days, I handled something that was -195°C. However, I suggest others avoid liquid nitrogen burns, they go deep.

 

[Bruce]

In my younger and sillier days, I handled something that was -195°C. However, I suggest others avoid liquid nitrogen burns, they go deep.

Did you smack your frozen finger with a hammer and watch it shatter into pieces like glass? That's always fun to do. Besides, you still have nine fingers. Typing becomes a bit tricky, though.

 

[RussDill]

Did you smack your frozen finger with a hammer and watch it shatter into pieces like glass? That's always fun to do. Besides, you still have nine fingers. Typing becomes a bit tricky, though.

you are thinking of liquid nitrogen

 

[kookbreaker]

Gah! Stupid liquid nitrogen myths! You cannot freeze and shatter your hand! Doesn't work that way! Poeple think this happens because they see the raquetball dunked in LN2 shatter, but if you do the same with a solid rubber ball it won't shatter at all!

For the record, Dry Ice is much harder to handle than LN2 (assuming you have proper dewers, etc.). Dry Ice has that lovely tendeny to freeze the moisture on your hand if you touch, wheras pouring LN2 on your hand usually means it just bounces off.

Making comets was fun though!

 

[RSLancastr]

Jeez, I thought that the last letter in the thread title was actually an exclamation point.

I guess I am going blind after all...

 

[geni]

For the record, Dry Ice is much harder to handle than LN2 (assuming you have proper dewers, etc.). Dry Ice has that lovely tendeny to freeze the moisture on your hand if you touch, wheras pouring LN2 on your hand usually means it just bounces off.

If it's a couple of days old though it will probably have a coating of water ice. Despite playing with both dry ice and liquid nitrogen I'm yet to do any damge to myself.