What Happens When You Pour Molten Aluminium Onto Liquid Nitrogen And Dry Ice?

What Happens When You Pour Molten Aluminium Onto Liquid Nitrogen And Dry Ice?

Video: Take the burning hot that is molten aluminium and mix it with the very cold that is liquid nitrogen and dry ice and you get an awesome as hell experiment that breaks science. Or something like that. Whatever it is, it’s very, very cool because you get to see the extreme reaction create giant bubbles in the aluminium while bits of aluminium pop away too.

The Backyard Scientist pours molten aluminium onto dry ice, drops dry ice into molten aluminium, pours molten aluminium into liquid nitrogen, and throws liquid nitrogen into molten aluminium in the video below.


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