Cocktail of liquid nitrogen - Girl has stomach removed
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"A teenager has had emergency surgery to remove her stomach after drinking a cocktail containing liquid nitrogen
The 18-year-old is reported to have become breathless and developed severe stomach pain before being taken to Royal Lancaster Infirmary.
Officers say she would have died if doctors had not performed the operation."
"A teenager has had emergency surgery to remove her stomach after drinking a cocktail containing liquid nitrogen
The 18-year-old is reported to have become breathless and developed severe stomach pain before being taken to Royal Lancaster Infirmary.
Officers say she would have died if doctors had not performed the operation."
thinfourth2 said:
Okay as someone who has worked with liquid nitrogen could someone please exlpain how you can get liquid N2 into a cocktail without the N2 gassing off and basically exploding
I just wondering that. Only got to within 10ft of it at College for fairly obvious reasons the lecturer wasn't letting us closer.. Domestic fridge +4C
Domestic freezer -17C (Ice cubes will stick to your fingers)
Frozen food warehouse -24C (Your hands will stick to anything you touch. Do not remove gloves.)
Dry ice, or solid carbon dioxide -80C (Handle with extreme care. Freeze burns are easy.)
Liquid nitrogen -200C. (Keep well away.)
Someone should almost certainly go to jail over this ridiculousness.
Domestic freezer -17C (Ice cubes will stick to your fingers)
Frozen food warehouse -24C (Your hands will stick to anything you touch. Do not remove gloves.)
Dry ice, or solid carbon dioxide -80C (Handle with extreme care. Freeze burns are easy.)
Liquid nitrogen -200C. (Keep well away.)
Someone should almost certainly go to jail over this ridiculousness.
Dear SP,
Somewhere I have a picture of be-mulleted Jet-of-his-time drinking from a glass of something (very) cold with a foggy trail spilling from the glass
regards,
Jet
SystemParanoia said:
wouldn't dry ice make more sense to put into drinks?
In the US in the '80s this was common at student parties. It may still be but I am now old.Somewhere I have a picture of be-mulleted Jet-of-his-time drinking from a glass of something (very) cold with a foggy trail spilling from the glass
regards,
Jet
Ozzie Osmond said:
Frozen food warehouse -24C (Your hands will stick to anything you touch. Do not remove gloves.)
Someone should almost certainly go to jail over this ridiculousness.
Sorry for the pedant mode, but thats not quite right there. I used to run a Frozen food warehouse and I could happily work in there in a tshirt and no gloves for short periods. I did not stick to everything I touched and that ran at -30C at minimum.Someone should almost certainly go to jail over this ridiculousness.
Certainly if your skin was wet and you touched a metal bar you could stick to it as the moisture froze, but that didnt happen in the 3 years I was there.
Someone made a cockup with that drink and they need to find out what actually happened or ban the use of liquid nitrogen in bars. They use liquid nitrogen to burn off warts and it hurts like hell. She must have had that pain in her stomach, which must have stung somewhat!
When somebody's brain is missing something or in neutral or judgement is impaired by alcohol, they do stupid things including potentially fatal things and this is one of them. Reading the article I had some sympathy but the overriding feeling had more to do with Darwin. Faced at her age with an offer of a drink with liquid nitrogen freshly poured into it, I might have died but only from laughing at the fkwit expecting me to drink from it. Maybe our edookashun differs a lot. At a guess the bar monkeys doing this have forgetten about the insulating properties of nitrogen gas and never heard of latent heat of vapourisation, not to mention the expansion by volume that occurs on vapourisation. I reckon the whole lot are still mysteries, given that knowing anything is uncool, so the risk remains and there will probably be a repeat incident somewhere before long.
SystemParanoia said:
"liquid nitrogen is a toxic chemicalsubstance. It destroys human tissue."
FPMSL! eeerm no its not.. we breath it all day every day lmao!
Nitrogen is fine. Liquid Nitrogen is not - it WILL destroy human tissue. Not because it's Nitrogen, but because it's cold. Slightly sloppy journalism though, yes.FPMSL! eeerm no its not.. we breath it all day every day lmao!
KrazyIvan said:
SystemParanoia said:
"liquid nitrogen is a toxic chemical. It destroys human tissue."
FPMSL! eeerm no its not.. we breath it all day every day lmao!
Not in liquid form we don't.......FPMSL! eeerm no its not.. we breath it all day every day lmao!
turbobloke said:
Faced at her age with an offer of a drink with liquid nitrogen freshly poured into it, I might have died but only from laughing at the fkwit expecting me to drink from it.
Not everyone knows the dangerous of a substance like this - so if the barman/her mates told her it was safe then her error was only in being too trusting.Gassing Station | News, Politics & Economics | Top of Page | What's New | My Stuff