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Re: plasma cutter/liquid nitrogen

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Originally Posted by Molten View Post
Is it possible to combine the two? Would it cause an explosion. Plasma is technically just super-heated particles, so could you super heat liquid nitrogen to turn it into plasma? Would it still have it's freezing effect? Just curious about this. Seeing as nobody will give me liquid nitrogen or a plasma cutter to play with, I was wondering if anyone knew any of these answers.
the simple answer is no It won't explode. Liquid nitrogen is just nitrogen that is in it's liquid state. I know that seems like circular logic but basically if you super heated liquid nitrogen you would just get hot nitrogen.

I don't know the specifics of making something plasma but my guess would be no considering Nitrogen is an inert gas.
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