by "j250ex" (j250ex)
Published 12/27/2017 at 17:38
by "j250ex" (j250ex)
Published 12/27/2017 at 17:38
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I know this guy is running click bate channel but this caught my eye. Pours liquid nitrogen in a gas tank and somehow it doesn’t immediately explode and seems to keep running.
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"farscythe - makin da cawfee!" (farscythe)
12/27/2017 at 17:50, STARS: 2
pouring it in like that... im going to assume most of it evaporated before hitting the fuel... the rest floated on it...
not that i know anything bout that.... i just hit sheets of metal with a hammer
im prolly all kindsa wrong anyhoo..... i really sucked at the sciences
"HammerheadFistpunch" (hammerheadfistpunch)
12/27/2017 at 17:50, STARS: 3
The real danger here is the LN ejecting gas all over the place, once it gets to the tank its just going to gas off and vent to his charcoal canister, its not going to make it to the pump because its lighter than gasoline. Basically what he did was find a flashy way of spilling gasoline everywhere and screwing with his purge system. His check engine light was likely a result of him not putting on a gas cap.
"HammerheadFistpunch" (hammerheadfistpunch)
12/27/2017 at 17:55, STARS: 3
yeah, he’s just replaced some of the explodey juice with a cold inert gas.
"WRXforScience" (WRXforScience)
12/27/2017 at 17:57, STARS: 0
The liquid nitrogen just vaporizes. Air is mostly nitrogen, so really the slight increase doesn’t do much of anything. The only real dangers are:
1. over-cooling a gasket or plastic component
2. increasing the pressure in the tank (there are vents, so this shouldn’t be an issue)
3. if you confine the gas (it is more dense than normal air and will displace oxygen, so if you were in an enclosed space you could suffocate)
Nearly all the liquid evaporates as he’s pouring. If you pour liquid nitrogen like he did more than half of it will evaporate before it gets to the ground. If you want to make some ice cream with liquid nitrogen it takes about a gallon or so to freeze a mixing bowl’s worth of ice cream. The Dewar he’s using contains a gallon or less of liquid nitrogen (they are double walled like a fancy travel mug and a bunch of the volume is just insulating empty space).
"DipodomysDeserti" (dipodomysdeserti)
12/27/2017 at 18:32, STARS: 0
78% of air is nitrogen, so the engine is already sucking a whole bunch of it in. He probably just unplugged his tank vent tubes so the nitrogen gas could evaporate straight out.