I wanna start off tonight with a two-step experiment.
For step one, I've got a two-liter bottle here.
It's half-filled with liquid nitrogen.
That's negative 320 degrees Fahrenheit.
As you can see, it's violently boiling off into a gas, just like boiling water does on a hot stove.
Because of this freezing cold liquid nitrogen, the nice comfy air in this room is super hot.
But here's the catch.
The gas form of nitrogen occupies 700 times the volume of the liquid, so you gotta be really careful as it's turning into a gas; you don't trap it in a small container, like if the lid was screwed on top here.
So then, for step two, I'm gonna go ahead and screw the lid on top.
And when I do, if everything goes according to plan, the contents of this bottle should experience what we refer to at NASA as an energetic, spontaneous, rapid disassembly.
