Punching a Hole Through Solid Steel Frozen With Liquid Nitrogen

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In this video I check if it is possible to punch through a steel wall if it is frozen with liquid nitrogen. I talk about the science behind freezing metals and test what happens to different metals at liquid nitrogen temperatures.
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4:21

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Can you do an experiment by making a hole in a barometer setup in the tube. Ive searched a lot but couldnt find any such videos

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Barely even got it cold and then hit it with the strength of a laughing toddler.

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Uuh! I punched it very hard and it didn't break at all😁😁

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plot twist: he’s just really strong and was holding back on the room temperature nail

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A lot of this can be explained by the different crystal structures formed by different metals. Face-centered cubic materials have relatively smooth planes between atoms that can slip pretty freely. (Aluminum and austenitic stainless steel, for example) Body-centered cubic materials have ridges on the slip planes that make movement harder. As the material gets colder these move closer and closer together the number of ways in which it can shift in order to accommodate more atoms in a smaller area. Since body-centered cubic materials have far fewer angles that they can deform at, essentially all of the ductility gets "used up".

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The reason the screw head broke off was the thin neck transition to the thick head creates a notched area which makes a stress concentrator.

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I feel lied to. No hole was punched in any steel plate during the video.

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I remember hearing someone that stainless steel was invented to impart resistance to shearing at very cold temperatures! (Stainless name was added after observing the resistance to corrosion)

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Indeed. Stainless steel has a lower ductile-to-brittle transition temperature(DBTT) than plain mild steel. This would mean that at colder temperatures(still above DBTT), stainless steel would retain its ductile properties hence have greater shear strength than mild steel that may lose its ductile properties at the same temperature.

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He knows that it will not break

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He was wearing them for the liquid nitrogen. The dangerous thing.

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What if you had something red hot, then hit it with the liquid nitrogen, would the extreme shock cause anything different to happen? I often heat and cool bolts to get them unstuck, I always wondered what extreme swings would cause.

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Probably warping or cracking, depends on some variables like metal type

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That is the slowest punch and hammer strike I've ever seen. Also, it won't matter anyway because you're conclusion is correct.

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Should have cold boiled that steel sheet in liquid nitrogen for a good 10 minutes then mounted it properly in an unmovable frame, would stand a chance of conducting this test properly

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This is chemistry

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