The Strange Effect When You Pour Liquid Nitrogen on Water

In this video I show what the Leidenfrost effect looks like when filmed from below. I pour liquid nitrogen on some water and show how the drops of liquid nitrogen float on the water due to its lower density and because of a small pocket of nitrogen gas that keeps the liquid nitrogen hovering on the surface.

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[ProPlayer-wqnu]

your thumbnail scared me i thought it was an eye or somethin

[JohnCena]

0:05 "cooler to see"
That pun tho :)

[Teegzo]

I click the video because I thought I saw a monster in the thumbnail

[jacobt]

You were on tv!! You were on the show outrageous acts of science

[therandomguy]

1:00 I think those chunks n the liquid is dry ice formed from the co2 of you breath ....? Am I right?

Edit: when you were blowing on it

[flamerollerx]

You could place a vacuum hose (you know, from your vacuum cleaner) near the top of the water so you can suck the nitrogen gas away from the bubble. It would look pretty cool and make it easier to see the liquid nitrogen floating over the surface of the water.

[fishstickcsgo]

The small dot things on the liquid nitrogen is either oxygen in liquid form or small chunks of frozen ice from the frost effect

[vailpaxman]

The linden frost effect also effects if you drop an extremely hot metal ball in cool water it will fall like you dropped it through air be cause the water evaporates around it so it just falls

[WLOfails]

Do you have published journals we can read?

[neshanwonder]

I bet I'm not first but I'm here to support you as early as possible though

[plasmaticstatic]

Guess this video was pretty *cool* hehe... he...





I'll go drink some liquid nitrogen...

[DANGJOS]

+The Action Lab You see those white bits in the floating liquid nitrogen? Apparently those are bits of dry ice that condensed from the air (or from the water)

[kevinpan]

You should also do some experiments with dry ice!

[gfyourself]

interesting! i didn't know this happened with really cold stuff, i thought it was just really hot stuff. the moar you know.

[One_KHRN]

Battery dipped in liquid nitrogen vs normal Battery....which will long last more ?

[Suspiciousbservers]

Cool video, but in the first 58 seconds i swear you said the exact same thing twice. Then again... its youtube so stuff like that is necessary. Stupid humans.

[bogdangrim]

that white dots in nitrogen can be oxygen

[mver]

This looks like the Leidenfrost effect.

[extremefabi]

Are the beams you can see in the smoke at 0:26 radiation?

[OttosAudio]

Aren’t those small white spots spots of solid CO2?