Friday, July 15, 2005
fun with liquid nitrogen, part 2
Brenda used a plastic pipet to drip orange gatorade into some leftover liquid nitrogen
(this is what scientists do on a friday, when they're starving for entertainment)
it made little dippin-dot like balls of frozen gatorade, which we strained out. I have a picture...on my cell phone...and I don't have my usb cord for it yet...and I'm not paying to email it to myself.
anyway, we all stared at the frozen orange dots in wonder. I picked one up and popped it in my mouth.
me: uhhhrrrggg
N: did it burn?
me: nooo...but it stuck to my tongue.
B: huh!
me: and now...I think I might be bleeding...
I wasn't bleeding, but we did have to wait for them to thaw a bit. My tongue has a faint "took a gulp of hot chocolate a little too soon" feel to it.
Isn't science fun, kids?
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Science in the news
"Humans' DNA is comprised of 3 billion chemical bits called nucleotides."
bits???
// ranted by evilsciencechick @ 7/15/2005 01:45:00 PM
(this is what scientists do on a friday, when they're starving for entertainment)
it made little dippin-dot like balls of frozen gatorade, which we strained out. I have a picture...on my cell phone...and I don't have my usb cord for it yet...and I'm not paying to email it to myself.
anyway, we all stared at the frozen orange dots in wonder. I picked one up and popped it in my mouth.
me: uhhhrrrggg
N: did it burn?
me: nooo...but it stuck to my tongue.
B: huh!
me: and now...I think I might be bleeding...
I wasn't bleeding, but we did have to wait for them to thaw a bit. My tongue has a faint "took a gulp of hot chocolate a little too soon" feel to it.
Isn't science fun, kids?
****************************
Science in the news
"Humans' DNA is comprised of 3 billion chemical bits called nucleotides."
bits???
