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Liquid nitrogen   /lˈɪkwəd nˈaɪtrədʒən/   Listen
Liquid nitrogen

noun
1.
Nitrogen in a liquid state.





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"Liquid nitrogen" Quotes from Famous Books



... black boiler tubes were shielded in such a way that so long as the aim was dead center on the sun they received no energy; but let the orientation shift by a fraction of a degree, and one of these blackened surfaces would begin to receive reflected energy from the mirror behind it; the liquid nitrogen within would boil, and escape under pressure through a jet in such manner as to re-orient the position to the center of the ...
— Where I Wasn't Going • Walt Richmond
... safe for us all to leave. Get out the suits and make sure all the tanks are charged and the heaters working. It will be colder here than in space. Out there, we were only cooled by radiation, but those streams are probably liquid nitrogen, oxygen, and argon, and there's a slight atmosphere of hydrogen, helium and neon cooled to about fifty degrees Absolute. We'll be cooled by ...
— Islands of Space • John W Campbell


Words linked to "Liquid nitrogen" :   atomic number 7, N, nitrogen, cryogen


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