assuming you can still type when the time comes
quite honestly he's not doing too well at the moment so any finger removal will make things much worse
liquid Nitro
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quite honestly he's not doing too well at the moment so any finger removal will make things much worse
Theoretically, yes. But nobody's managed to achieve absolute zero at this point and it's doubtful they will for a good, long while (yes, they've come within 0.001oC or whatever, but hey).
And CO2 sublimes from a solid - it does not evaporate. Nitrogen evaporates, but that's because it turns from a liquid to a gas.
LN2-based cooling is only really advisable for suicide runs as it is not what I would describe as being remotely practical. You'd be safer (and probably cheaper in the long run) buying a Prommie or Vapo.
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what is Prommie or Vapo?
I've also used liquid nitro at work (back when I was in TV special effects) - we used a distilling tube emmersed in liquid nitro to create liquid oxygen. (just pump 02 through the tube and out comes a liquid). word of warning - liquid oxygen is very explosive unlike nitrogen, especially if it happens to soak into a flammable absorbant material.
A somewhat safer experiment is to create dry ice by freezing C02.
As others have mentioned, never put liquid nitro in any sealed environment because it will evaporate/expand and burst out of containment (those big chunky containers have special polystyrene lose-fitting caps that insulate but don't seal the bottles).
It's definitely fun to work with - very weird stuff when you're pouring it out - it feels a bit like it's alive since it has a habit of moving around of it's own accord (it can even move uphill under some conditions).
Cheers,
Z