Overclocking Arduino with liquid nitrogen cooling

Re:Overclocking Arduino with liquid nitrogen cooling by dogma1138 on Wednesday March 02, 2016 @05:21PM (#11213512)

you can let it sit there too LN is mostly safe, dry ice can be a much bigger pain since there is solid to solid contact but even it isn't that bad.

You have quite a large thermal mass a bit of LN won't do that much damage to you, you can dip your hand into LN and keep it there for quite a while :)

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Re:Overclocking Arduino with liquid nitrogen cooling by FreeFull on Wednesday March 02, 2016 @09:12PM (#11214603)

You can also wet your hand and dip your fingers into sufficiently hot lead, and again, the leidenfrost effect will protect you (as long as you don't keep your fingers in there for too long).

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Re:Overclocking Arduino with liquid nitrogen cooling by dogma1138 on Thursday March 03, 2016 @10:43AM (#11217496)

I have strong doubts about that actually the case, I've seen what happens when water drips into molten metal (things go boom) and even if that wasn't the case the steam would be super heated which is enough to burn your hand to crisp.

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Re:Overclocking Arduino with liquid nitrogen cooling by FreeFull on Friday March 11, 2016 @01:08PM (#11268340)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yTOCAd2QhGg Mythbusters have tested it themselves and confirmed that it works. The molten lead does have to be at a specific temperature (Too cold, and the steam isn't enough to protect your fingers and slow down the evaporation. Too hot, and the water evaporates pretty much instantly too.)

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Re:Overclocking Arduino with liquid nitrogen cooling by _snydly on Wednesday March 02, 2016 @10:22PM (#11214830)

> hot lead

To me at least, this sounds terrifying compared to the liquid nitrogen.

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