Name: Melting Solid Air @DietterichLabs
Uploaded: 2019-04-21T01:29:31-0400
Duration: 8 min 17 s
Description: In this video, I show you some solid air melting that showed up in a low temperature physics experiment with liquid helium. The air got in there due to an inadequately purged liquid helium transfer tube. It solidified on contact with the liquid helium, and then started melting once the helium evaporated down.

Uploaded April 2019 | Updated September 2026, 2 hours ago

In this video, I show you some solid air melting that showed up in a low temperature physics experiment with liquid helium. The air got in there due to an inadequately purged liquid helium transfer tube. It solidified on contact with the liquid helium, and then started melting once the helium evaporated down.