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August 6, 2012 04:41 pm PDT
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Liquid nitrogen hovers over the surface of a hot pan
The Leidenfrost Effect is a lovely sounding name for some very strange and nifty physics. When you heat up a liquid, it will, eventually, boil away into a gas. Different liquids have different boiling points. But here's the weird catch: When you suddenly put a liquid in contact with something much, much hotter than its [...]Original Link: http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/uQsMETeyz8Y/liquid-nitrogen-hovers-over-th.html
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