• Question: If you put a flaming match in liquid nitrogen what happens???

    Asked by 866smap42 to Sheila, Piyush, Natalia, Gary, Dimitar on 5 Nov 2018.
    • Photo: Gary Munnelly

      Gary Munnelly answered on 5 Nov 2018:


      It would be really disappointing I’m afraid.

      Nitrogen is not flammable, so if you put a match into a canister of liquid nitrogen, the flame would be starved of oxygen and would go out. Now, if you had a canister of liquid oxygen, that would be a totally different story.

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