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August 6, 2012 04:41 pm PDT

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 [...]


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