• Question: What happens when liquid nitrogen meets the hottest substance on earth?

    Asked by chicken is cool to Jasmine on 5 Nov 2018.
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      Jasmine answered on 5 Nov 2018:

      I’m sorry, I don’t know the answer to this question.

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  • Photo: Karen

    Karen commented on :

    Hmm I don’t know the answer to that! In my field, scientists sometimes use liquid nitrogen (super cold) to quickly freeze samples of soil so that we can take them to the lab and look at them in the exact way they are in real life. This is called freeze coring! I think that combining such a cold liquid and the hottest substance on earth would be an interesting experiment, but you’d probably want to stand back a bit!

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    William commented on :

    The liquid nitrogen would boil and turn into nitrogen gas before it gets near the hot substance as it has a really really low boiling point of -195.8 degrees Celsius. It boils at room temperature but the heat energy being given out by a super hot substance, would cause a load of nitrogen gas to be released. It depends on how much of the liquid nitrogen and the substance you have of course as the substance will eventually lose all its heat energy and start to cool down over time!

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    NBA Einstein GAA Genuis commented on :

    You are so smart William