How Much Liquid Nitrogen Would It Take to Freeze a Terminator?

[TheActionLab]

I’m sorry everyone, this is one of my favorite scenes in movie history. It’s hard for me to accept as well. But even him walking through the stream of liquid nitrogen and having it splash on him is not enough. He’d have to be swimming it for about a minute. Lets all just imagine that’s what happened in some off camera scene😅

[toastrecon]

If you rewatch the clip where the T-1000 escapes the cab of the overturned liquid nitrogen truck, you can see that as he stands up, he's being showered with the cryogenic fluid as he gets his bearings and then turns to walk towards the heroes, so maybe that was enough time for him to become thoroughly chilled. Now I want to know if you shot the mini gallium T-1000 with a bb gun after submerging it in liquid nitrogen, would it shatter?

[zerocalvin]

you need to rewatch that scene again, T-1000 wasnt just walking in the puddle of liquid nitrogen, he was showered in it for quite some time before walking.

[Cyberdactyl]

I believe your whole premise is wrong. He's not "liquid metal". He's made up of hundreds of millions of micro nanobots that merely appear metallic.

[jonfoster]

the T1000 was doused with entire truckload of liquid nitrogen in a matter of seconds (go back and watch the movie) which means there was MORE then enough to remove the required amount of heat. and you dont see much on the ground because it evaporates so quickly, like rubbing alchol.

[platzhalter]

Well the T 1000 is no real fluid.
It consists of nanobots that behave like a fluid.
So you can't compare it to a real fluid in terms of phase change.

[larrysaylor]

I know it's a movie, but your gallium experiment in the plastic bag had an insulator, which was the baggy, in the movie the t-1000 was in direct contact with the liquid nitrogen, his clothes are part of him. Probably would have had different results just dumping the gallium into the liquid, or a shallow puddle of it.

[MusicalZombie]

6:45 I think that the point of the movie was not to use liquid nitrogen to destroy a T-1000. The actually interesting part was that the properties of the metal seem to have been altered due to the freezing, melting and re-manifestation of the metal. He suddenly gained magnetic properties, the metal became more elastic (less structured) and adapted the material properties of other metals he was touching.

[ChosenFate_]

Apparently comments about bet-ter h-elp are being blocked, so damn sad... just as sad as it is to still be sponsored by them

[ChosenFate_]

Still advertising BetterHelp? Come on.

[scorpio]

I'm glad you said "when" the robot uprising happens, because it definitely will.

[ToTouchAnEmu]

Are we sure we used the minimum amount of liquid N2? The boiling slows down when the gallium is close to the -196C point, but the gallium was frozen long before that. I would bet you could have used much less N2 to get the gallium to freeze.

[roccov]

Cool episode. Isn't it pronounced "LAY-tent"? Thanks.

[mydviews]

The T=1000 wasn't being frozen from a liquid to a solid. It was already mostly a solid, but froze such that it could no longer move. So, not the same thing.

[halloweendad]

Scientifically accurate or not, the movie was pretty cool.

[jonfoster]

and if you watch he breaks from the bottom up meaning the metal hes made of is transfering "heat" "cold" faster then normal, hence why he breaks apart from the bottom up (feet first) being in the nitrogem longer cooled them first, then the combination of the dousing and the continued cold from below, froze him the rest of the way.

see if you can freeze mercury quickly and into a shape.

[metern]

To make this test closer to the movie, the mannequin has to get a lot of liquid Nitrogen poured over it to match the movie scene.

[markotrieste]

6:15 never use IR cameras to infer temperature of metals. Metals have very low emissivity and, while you can compensate for it, it's prone to big errors. Solution: put some paper tape on the metal surface you want to measure.

[Elyon]

@4:00 isn't he a superconductor at room temperature?

[brfisher]

How did you manage to detect the temperature difference on the bare metal ruler despite the fact that metals have a low emissivity and thus reflect more infrared radiation than they emit?