How come nitrogen can stay so cold in all temperatures? I guess it’s not cold when compressed inside the bottle, rather a reaction when turning to gas? But where does the energy from the “room temperature” go?
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Nitrogen, like basically any matter, has no inherent temperature. When you see liquid nitrogen, it is extremely cold. Thats why there is so much steam coming off it. Thats nitrogen boiling off, as in, being heated to room temperature and turning into its gas state bc its boiling point is below room temp and normal pressure. It can be stored at these low temperatures in special containers but in a normal bottle it would heat up to the outside temp just like a bottle of any other gas or liquid.
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