• Question: What causes liquid Nitrogen to burn ??

    Asked by Cara21🐷 to Sarah, Gabriel, Breandan, Adam on 14 Mar 2018. This question was also asked by BBV.
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      Gabriel Balaban answered on 14 Mar 2018:

      Nitrogen does not burn under normal conditions. When you put liquid nitrogen into the air at normal temperature it begins to turn into gas, which may look a bit like smoke. What you are seeing is evaporation though, like what happens when you boil water, only nitrogen boils at a much much lower temperature than water.

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