What happens if you fall into a liquid nitrogen tank?

Immersed in an environment with temperatures above -196 degrees C, the outcome to the victim will be really catastrophic. The only lucky thing is that the pain only lasts for a few seconds, before they lose all consciousness!

Nitrogen is a very common element on Earth. Only in the atmosphere, Nitrogen has accounted for nearly 80%. Under normal conditions, nitrogen exists in gaseous form. However, when cooled down to -196 degrees C (boiling temperature of Nitrogen), it will turn liquid and we can keep it in this state for a long time, by storing with a flask Vacuum, without further cooling. Due to this characteristic, liquid nitrogen has been used as a storage environment or for freezing purposes.

Nitrogen is a very common element on Earth.

Recently, liquid nitrogen has even been used to create 'hot trend' dishes such as smoke popcorn, smoky ice cream . Although it brings a wonderful and spectacular effect to dishes and drinks But the use of liquid nitrogen for this purpose still has a lot of health risks, which are still recommended by experts!

So what makes Nitrogen dangerous to humans?

Before finding the answer to the above question, you need to know a bit about the properties of this liquid. Accordingly, liquid nitrogen is a colorless, odorless and non-flammable substance. When exposed to room temperature, nitrogen quickly evaporates and creates faint white smoke.

Liquid nitrogen is used as a storage medium or for freezing purposes.

In the past, liquid nitrogen was mostly used in manufacturing (frozen fruit export), or in the field of research (sperm preservation, specimens). However, service providers quickly realized the value of liquid nitrogen and brought it into everyday life such as: food, entertainment . However, only until the unfortunate incidents occur due to use. Fluid liquid spread, lack of knowledge appeared more and more, people really realized the danger of this liquid.

In an environment below -196 degrees C, the entire body surface will quickly stiffen.

In 2013, a resort in Mexico poured four barrels of liquid nitrogen into a swimming pool to create a beautiful effect for the party, with the participation of hundreds of people. Few people suspected that the water with the faint white smoke of that day quickly became a water tank of 'death'!

When nitrogen gas is exposed to high temperatures and evaporates in bulk, it replaces almost all of the oxygen in the air above the water. Therefore, when people jumped into the swimming pool they were trapped in a 'suffocating room' at all times, things got worse when the white smoke caused by Nitrogen caused limited positioning, making it difficult for visitors. Please find the way to the shore. Fortunately, the amount of liquid nitrogen poured into the tank is only 4 barrels, resulting in only 1 person getting comatose and 8 others having to be hospitalized.

So what will happen after that day, this resort replaces the entire country with liquid nitrogen, or, in broad words: 'What happens when we fall into a liquid nitrogen tank?'

If we fall into liquid nitrogen tank

Naturally, in an environment below -196 degrees C, the entire surface of the body will quickly become numb, severe skin burns (more dangerous than hot burns). Not long after that, liquid nitrogen will attack inside the body. Muscles, blood fat and any liquid you have in you will be frozen into a solid form. If you try to keep your head floating above this liquid Nitrogen tank, freezing your lower body will cause you to sink in a split second. The end result is a completely frozen body, like the specimens preserved by this method, which we can see in the laboratory!

The feeling of pain to them will be short if it falls into liquid nitrogen tank.

The only lucky thing about the victim in the above case is that the feeling of pain to them will be short-lived , because the nervous system is now damaged and unable to transmit as well as feel the pain signal.

Being a nightmare for living people. However, the freezing by Nitrogen is a measure that many people are trying to apply to preserve their bodies when they die, there are also cases of people suffering from serious diseases such as cancer want to freeze the body, when they live and preserve until science and technology are developed to 'defrost ' and heal!