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To: DBrow
I work at a lab that gets regular deliveries of H2 because someone runs a furnace with a hydrogen atmosphere. It shows up in a regular truck.

If he has some liquid hydrogen on hand, you should go pour yourself a nice big glass, sit back and watch what happens when the stuff is left unattended.

59 posted on 02/28/2008 7:28:21 AM PST by AdamSelene235 (Truth has become so rare and precious she is always attended to by a bodyguard of lies.)
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To: AdamSelene235

It evaporates pretty fast from a dewar. Most of what we get is compressed, and sometimes that’s absorbed into a metal sponge of some sort.

The liquid is much colder than nitrogen, about 20K, and it’s much less dense, a liter of LH2 weighs only 70 grams, where water weighs 1000 grams.

It’s pretty flammable, naturally.


62 posted on 02/28/2008 7:38:37 AM PST by DBrow
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