I got about a dozen shots of liquid nitrogen from my dermatologist yesterday, and last night I came into contact with dry ice.
I received my brother's annual gift of a box of meat from Omaha Steaks yesterday. Inside the cooler was a plastic bag with dry ice (-109°F). While I was removing the plastic bag of dry ice from the cooler, one finger came into contact with the ice through the plastic bag. Instant pain! That is beyond cold - and pain. Don't even consider having any living creature come into contact with that.
Liquid nitrogen is at -320°F, but getting a quick shot of it isn't as bad as the feel of the dry ice.
I have had the dermatologists’ blasts, but have managed to steer clear of touching the dry ice. I’ll take your word for it.
jerryc41 wrote:
I got about a dozen shots of liquid nitrogen from my dermatologist yesterday, and last night I came into contact with dry ice.
I received my brother's annual gift of a box of meat from Omaha Steaks yesterday. Inside the cooler was a plastic bag with dry ice (-109°F). While I was removing the plastic bag of dry ice from the cooler, one finger came into contact with the ice through the plastic bag. Instant pain! That is beyond cold - and pain. Don't even consider having any living creature come into contact with that.
Liquid nitrogen is at -320°F, but getting a quick shot of it isn't as bad as the feel of the dry ice.
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Lol Jerry the trick is Dry hands and don't hold it very long, I used to play with dry Ice every chance I got when I was young, never received a "burn". Lucky I guess .
sb
Loc: Florida's East Coast
In my private practice I treated a lot of engineers from one of the areas large military contracting companies. They tended to be fairly technically oriented (bringing in spreadsheets of their BP readings, etc...). As I was applying liquid nitrogen to some precancerous spots on one such patient's face, he asked how cold it was. I said "minus 320 degrees". He responded while flinching a little from the pain: "Is that Fahrenheit or centigrade"? My response: "Does it really matter to you right now"?
My response: "Does it really matter to you right now"?
sb wrote:
In my private practice I treated a lot of engineers from one of the areas large military contracting companies. They tended to be fairly technically oriented (bringing in spreadsheets of their BP readings, etc...). As I was applying liquid nitrogen to some precancerous spots on one such patient's face, he asked how cold it was. I said "minus 320 degrees". He responded while flinching a little from the pain: "Is that Fahrenheit or centigrade"? My response: "Does it really matter to you right now"?
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He must not have been too much of an engineer. Absolute zero is -273.15 degrees C. -320 degrees C is not even theoretically possible.
thomseninc wrote:
He must not have been too much of an engineer. Absolute zero is -273.15 degrees C. -320 degrees C is not even theoretically possible.
Reminds me of a discussion here about computer CPU temperatures some time back. Someone mentioned the CPU temp being around 110° or 115° and another person asked if that was F or C. Seemed a bit of a logical answer to me.
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