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Nitrogen cocktail iced after woman is hospitalized in Miami
Toronto Sun ^ | May 16, 2014 | ZACHARY FAGENSON, REUTERS

Posted on 05/16/2014 7:08:22 PM PDT by rickmichaels

MIAMI BEACH, Fla. – A trendy South Beach restaurant has pulled liquid nitrogen cocktails off its menu after a woman was served a drink with too much of the sub-zero liquid and was rushed to the hospital with a burned esophagus.

Luxury "cryogenic cocktails" have become popular, with bartenders using small amounts of liquid nitrogen to create smoking drinks. The liquid can also instantly freeze everything from ice cream to fruit, which then easily shatters into glass-like shards.

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To: rickmichaels

People are STUPID


21 posted on 05/16/2014 7:28:26 PM PDT by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans!)
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To: rickmichaels

I cannot imagine. Burning your esophagus is a frightening thing -there are people who aren’t able to swallow food for the rest of their lives.

“Kaufman was rushed to an emergency room where doctors performed surgery to close holes in her stomach and esophagus, and to allow the nitrogen, which was quickly expanding from a liquid to a gas, to escape her body.”

“Marc Brumer, Kaufman’s lawyer, said she has racked up more than $135,000 in medical bills because of the incident.”


22 posted on 05/16/2014 7:30:47 PM PDT by I still care (I miss my friends, bagels, and the NYC skyline - but not the taxes. I love the South.)
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To: thecodont

I think that is different. In that case, they are using as a tool to prepare the ice cream, not an ingredient to be served in it.


23 posted on 05/16/2014 7:31:21 PM PDT by rlmorel ("A nation, despicable by its weakness, forfeits even the privilege of being neutral." A. Hamilton)
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To: rickmichaels

Why would anyone either drink or sell something like this? What you don’t know can kill you.


24 posted on 05/16/2014 7:33:07 PM PDT by JimSEA
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To: rickmichaels

Police had to be summoned to clear the hospital parking lots and nearby streets of personal injury lawers fighting to get in the hospital door.

Reports of some lawyers landing on the rooftop Emergency Helicopter Landing Area in their corporate helicopters have not yet been confirmed.


25 posted on 05/16/2014 7:35:21 PM PDT by Iron Munro (Malaysia Flight MH370 Black Box signals reported in Bermuda Triangle)
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To: thecodont
LIQUID NITROGEN: It is SMITTEN'S Ice Cream in the Hayes Valley area of San Francisco.

You can call them and the guy (really friendly and nice guy) who sells it can tell you ALL ABOUT the liquid nitrogen. It keeps the ice cream cold.

Their phone number is (415) 863-1518.

26 posted on 05/16/2014 7:40:49 PM PDT by cloudmountain
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To: ChildOfThe60s; rickmichaels

“When I was a kid I saw several liquid nitrogen presentations.”

When I was a kid (high school) a fellow student and I put on liquid air demonstrations for a science fair. Our physics teacher got the liquid oxygen and liquid nitrogen from the cryogenics lab at Iowa State College (University). We demonstrated the oxidative abilities of the liquid oxygen, and the super cooling abilities of the liquid nitrogen. With the liquid nitrogen we froze a piece of inner tube (for a nail) and made a mercury hammer. Then we drove the rubber nail into a block of wood with the hammer. Took a hollow rubber ball, bounded it, then immersed it in the liquid nitrogen and threw it against a wall...of course it shattered. Then I immersed my hand into the liquid nitrogen, and after a few seconds withdrew it, in full possession of my fingers and they still had full movement. That was when we got the Oh’s and Awe’s. That works, because the heat of the hand gasifies the nitrogen in contact with it and forms a temporary insulating layer. We had 5 demonstrations in the course of the evening. And I immersed my hand each of those 5 times.

Risky? No, not if you understand the laws of thermodynamics.

Some years later, in industry, we used liquid nitrogen to freeze the tube going into the braider in making wire braid hydraulic hose.


27 posted on 05/16/2014 7:44:25 PM PDT by GGpaX4DumpedTea (I am a Tea Party descendant...steeped in the Constitutional Republic given to us by the Founders)
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To: rickmichaels

Darwin Award!


28 posted on 05/16/2014 7:44:42 PM PDT by BobL
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To: rickmichaels

Did she have a brain freeze?


29 posted on 05/16/2014 7:49:21 PM PDT by Old Yeller (Why is Jon Corzine a free man?)
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To: rickmichaels
From 2012:

Teenager has stomach removed to save her life after drinking lethal liquid nitrogen cocktail

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/2941667/posts?q=1&;page=1#1

30 posted on 05/16/2014 7:55:19 PM PDT by TChad (The Obamacare motto: Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori.)
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To: GGpaX4DumpedTea

We had a cryogenics demonstration when I was in junior high. The guy took a piece of gravel and placed it on an anvil.

He then put a drop of liquid Oxygen on the gravel.

Then he hit it with a hammer.

BANG!!!


31 posted on 05/16/2014 7:57:14 PM PDT by ROCKLOBSTER (Celebrate "Republicans Freed the Slaves" Month.)
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To: cloudmountain

No sympathy from me. That`s naked singularity stupid and stupid SHOULD hurt,


32 posted on 05/16/2014 7:58:10 PM PDT by ClearBlueSky (When anyone says its not about Islam...it's about Islam. That death cult must be eradicated.)
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To: cloudmountain

No sympathy from me. That`s naked singularity stupid and stupid SHOULD hurt,


33 posted on 05/16/2014 7:59:05 PM PDT by ClearBlueSky (When anyone says its not about Islam...it's about Islam. That death cult must be eradicated.)
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To: rickmichaels

Hold my beaker and watch this...


34 posted on 05/16/2014 8:12:03 PM PDT by DanielRedfoot (Creepy Ass Cracker)
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To: Retired Chemist
We used it to run a IR camera. Every time we collected a load (lasted about 10 days before it all boiled away) someone had to read and sign a safe handling screed.

To be fair to the bar in the story, I cannot recall that drinking it was specifically prohibited.

35 posted on 05/16/2014 8:18:36 PM PDT by Oztrich Boy
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To: posterchild

I have a true story from a good friend. My friend kept his liquor in the freezer in an attempt to hide it from teenage Son, when Son stayed at Daddies. Daddy always marked the liquid level on his bottles to track this. Well, son was sneaking liquor from the bottles and bringing the level back up with water. Eventually, the “liquor” started freezing! BUSTED!! Son wasn’t good at physics OR chemistry.


36 posted on 05/16/2014 8:28:12 PM PDT by SgtHooper (This is my tag!)
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To: Steely Tom
Good grief. The stuff is 190 degrees below zero.

I wonder who she voted for.

We only get one guess and we would all be right.

37 posted on 05/16/2014 8:48:02 PM PDT by Irish Eyes
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To: rickmichaels

Another case of stupidity. Life really IS harder if you are stupid.

Life is a hands on experience. Don’t put your life in somebody elses hand if you can manage for yourself. If you can’t for whatever reason, be sure they know what they are doing. I don’t believe in do-it-youself surgery or other similar things so I leave them to the experts.

Of course she was the victim, it was really the stupid bar tender’s fault. But she should have anticipated there was a risk.


38 posted on 05/16/2014 8:52:31 PM PDT by Texicanus (Texas, it's a whole 'nother country.)
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To: GGpaX4DumpedTea

Great show!

Kids simply do not learn science anymore in the public schools.

It is because of ignorance of basic scientific principles that the populace can be duped into accepting the “global warming” and “climate change” propaganda.


39 posted on 05/16/2014 8:54:53 PM PDT by miserare (2014--The Year We Fight Back!)
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To: rickmichaels

Are these people stark-raving mad———or just bored to death?

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40 posted on 05/16/2014 8:55:04 PM PDT by Mears
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