If this isn't what happened,
then someone needs to take science out the back, for a serious talking to.
( monster munch person, man, woman... camera... TV?, Wed 21 Sep 2011, 9:02, 2 replies)

it really doesn't work.
I've tried it with liquid oxygen and liquid nitrogen and rubber hoses.

Science regularly gives itself a good talking to, and then we go out and make fluorescent cats. It's all about the LOLZ.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Wed 21 Sep 2011, 9:08, closed)

Takes a bit of time.
But we freeze rubber tubing and fruit for 1st-year demonstrations, usually ending in smashing them with hammers.
( Colonel Boris "...a desperate Buzzfeed imitation...", Wed 21 Sep 2011, 10:56, closed)

Yeah, you're right - it works if you dip them in it for ages
it doesn't if you pour it on, because the constant vapourisation at the surface means a layer of gas between the tube and the liquid for the duration and vapour is a rubbish conductor. I've poured the stuff onto my bare hand before for the same reason. Although I wouldn't recommend it, kids.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Wed 21 Sep 2011, 13:58, closed)

Good tricks with LN2
#341: Fill a foam polystyrene bucket with the stuff, drop a rubber bung in and then reach in and pick it out with your bare hand. Note: long arm hairs can penetrate the vapour barrier, let the liquid through and sting like hell.
(ubergeekian, Wed 21 Sep 2011, 16:38, closed)

Since my research group is more biology than anything else these days
it's the dry ice for the pranks. You'd have thought, with my supposed maturity and seniority, I'd have stopped putting dry ice in other people's tea, wouldn't you?
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Wed 21 Sep 2011, 17:26, closed)

I read this as 'rubber horses'
I want to dip a rubber horse in LN2 now.

Edit: Or oxygen, or helium...
(Imaginary Ed was dreamed up on, Wed 21 Sep 2011, 13:46, closed)

Oh happy memories
Staedler pens explode in LN2 but BIC ones don't. Mars Bars disintegrate but Marathon (shows my age) remain intact.
(ubergeekian, Wed 21 Sep 2011, 12:08, closed)

I rather like this.
Is there a peanut stability matrix?
( monster munch person, man, woman... camera... TV?, Thu 22 Sep 2011, 9:07, closed)