People are doused with liquid nitrogen. What happens if you douse yourself with liquid nitrogen?

Having hastened to find out how the selfless natural scientist was feeling, MK found out that Anton was not Konovalov, but Sharypov, not a chemist, but a physicist, and the clip itself had nothing to do with the Western flash mob with dousing with ice water. And now the author of the video intends to appeal to the international court.

According to The Daily Mail, “Anton Konovalov works at a chemical plant producing liquid nitrogen and therefore, wanting to take part in the popular Western Ice Bucket Challenge, poured a bucket of nitrogen, not ice water, over himself.” The newspaper kindly explains that for residents of frosty Russia, “the feeling of having a bucket of ice water on your head is about the same as just going outside on a rainy day.” And for “these mysterious Russians” a simple dousing with ice water would be too simple; they would have something more “adrenaline-intensive” - for example, liquid nitrogen, the temperature of which is -195 degrees, from which every living thing dies and even warts disappear - but not Russians!

Well, DM can understand: the video is really funny. “If anything, I love my wife,” says a thin man in shorts, before knocking over a bucket of liquid nitrogen on himself in the cold. To make sure that the brave man is still alive, one of his comrades in the frame pokes his finger at him.

But neither the “city of Kryansk” nor the Krasnoyarsk region is on the map, nor is the chemist Anton Konovalov on the list of employees of any of the 8 chemical plants in the region. But the author of the sensational video was found, who said that Anton’s last name is Sharypov, and the video itself has been hanging on YouTube since October 1 on the author’s channel of Krasnoyarsk video blogger Dmitry Shilov and is part of his author’s series “What will happen if...”. And it’s true - it is preceded by similar plots from the same series - for example, “what will happen if liquid nitrogen is poured into Coca-Cola.”

In addition, as explained to MK at the Chemistry Department of Moscow State University, in this case the Westerners were completely wrong to mock and only demonstrated their ignorance of the issue. The hero of the video actually poured a bucket of liquid nitrogen on himself and was not harmed at all, having experienced the so-called Leidenfrost effect - a phenomenon in which a liquid in contact with a body much hotter than the boiling point of this liquid creates an insulating layer of vapor that protects the liquid from rapid boiling - thus, the nitrogen did not damage the experimenter’s skin.

So Anton suffered not from nitrogen, but from distortion of information about him - from his true name to his place of work. In fact, Anton Sharypov is a Krasnoyarsk physicist, author and one of the co-founders of the interactive science museum “Newton Park” and a frequent guest of the author’s channel of video blogger Dmitry Shilov.

The author of the video is outraged by the free retelling of events in the version of British journalists. Dmitry Shilov told MK that he has already contacted international lawyers, who must find out by what right the Daily Mail appropriated the video and placed its logo on it.

What the Russians are not capable of out of solidarity! 28-year-old Novosibirsk businessman Mikhail Demidov poured 5.5 liters of nitrogen on himself to support his neighbors - Krasnoyarsk scientists. They were offended that their video, where they were conducting experiments with a dangerous substance, was posted on the website of the British tabloid Daily Mail, forgetting to indicate the authorship. Moreover, in the note the surnames and names of the characters were mixed up.

Foreign journalists are clearly wrong; they stole someone else’s video without asking. Therefore, as a sign of support for the Krasnoyarsk residents, I decided to repeat their experience, and at the same time prove that Siberians can not only douse themselves with nitrogen, but also undress in the cold,” Mikhail Demidov told KP.

The guy didn’t have to look for liquid nitrogen for long - he has a company in Novosibirsk that organizes holidays and shows for children with various chemical experiments. So there is a lot of such dangerous stuff in stock.

I took two thermoses of nitrogen, went outside, stripped down to shorts and doused myself. I specially put a swimming cap on my head, because if nitrogen had gotten into my ears, nothing good would have happened, but I was almost unharmed,” Demidov describes his experience, at the same time talking about chemical subtleties. - The nitrogen temperature is -195.8 depending on the pressure, that is, quite low. In comparison, the human body temperature is quite high, even if it is -20 outside. Therefore, nitrogen, when in contact with a higher temperature, tries to immediately evaporate, turning into a gas layer, and gas does not have very good thermal conductivity, so you do not have time to get burned if there is no prolonged contact. That's the trick.

So is it generally safe? Can everyone safely pour a tub of nitrogen on themselves?

I burned my ears a little, since the skin there is the most sensitive, but now I applied the cream, and everything is fine, the skin is not peeling off yet! In theory, the experience is safe. But if a person is afraid, not sure, there is no need to do this. The slightest delay in time - and you can get burned.

Let us remind you that Krasnoyarsk physicist Anton Sharypov doused himself with liquid nitrogen a month ago. So he wanted to interest children in natural sciences. The other day the video was published on the website of the Daily Mail newspaper. They just confused the name of the scientist and the purpose of the action.

British journalists thought that the desperate Siberian took part in the Ice Bucket Challenge in this way, pouring not just cold water on himself, but a substance that froze everything in its path. The authors of the video were very offended and recorded a new video:

You called our region a region, you misrepresented the name of the scientist, and most importantly, you stole our video and pasted your logo on it. Therefore, we challenge you, you have one day to douse yourself with nitrogen,” said the experimenters, stripped down to shorts and disappeared for a second behind a vapor curtain of nitrogen. The British have not yet responded.

And here is the same video from Krasnoyarsk that started it all. Video.

20/11/2014

Bloggers from Krasnoyarsk decided to support the #icebucketchallenge movement, in which participants pour ice water on themselves and challenge their opponent to a “duel.” However, the Siberians went further - they doused themselves with liquid nitrogen.

B British journalists from the Daily Mail newspaper were also interested in the effect of liquid nitrogen on the human body. Without asking the video bloggers, they posted frames from their videos in their material, and also distorted the name of the Krasnoyarsk Territory, turning it into a region.

The British write in their publication: “...a bucket of ice water might look cool if you live in a place where it is always hot, but for those who live in cold climates, it is less impressive. If you live in cold Russia, the feeling of a cold bucket of water should be like leaving the house on a rainy day,” reports NGS.Novosti.

The bloggers decided to teach the journalists who used their video a lesson and challenged them, giving them only a day to respond with the video. The author of the blog, Dmitry Shilov, even intends to sue the British publication.

The main character of the video, which the British liked so much, a researcher at the Institute of Physics and director of the Newton Park Science Museum, Anton Sharypov, said that he wanted to show by his participation in this project how interesting physics is.

“The temperature of [liquid] nitrogen is -196 degrees. The first time the cooled liquid comes into contact with the body, an air cushion appears. For the first second and a half, nothing much happens, but with longer contact a severe burn is possible. In my case, when everything happens quickly, it feels cold, but nothing more,” he says.