Timeline for Does extreme cold make **everything** extremely brittle?
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| Aug 19, 2014 at 12:58 | vote | accept | Max Williams | ||
| Aug 14, 2014 at 9:16 | history | edited | Knut Gjerden | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Aug 14, 2014 at 8:54 | comment | added | Knut Gjerden | @Danu added some | |
| Aug 14, 2014 at 8:53 | history | edited | Knut Gjerden | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Aug 14, 2014 at 8:28 | comment | added | Max Williams | @Joshua, nice experiment :) | |
| Aug 14, 2014 at 8:02 | comment | added | Knut Gjerden | Interesting @Joshua, I would love an expert on ice to answer this question. | |
| Aug 14, 2014 at 8:00 | comment | added | Knut Gjerden | Edited in response to question by @MaxWilliams | |
| Aug 14, 2014 at 7:59 | history | edited | Knut Gjerden | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Aug 13, 2014 at 20:16 | comment | added | NeutronStar | I have tried this too with a potato (frozen in an ordinary household freezer). A drop from between 3 and 4 meters did little to damage the potato but being thrown downwards from the same height shattered quite spectacularly. As I remember, there weren't enough large pieces left to merit a clean up. | |
| Aug 13, 2014 at 15:53 | comment | added | nivag | @MaxWilliams Probably, but I expect they would be dead from being frozen first. You'd probably need a bath of liquid nitrogren or something to freeze them all the way through to. | |
| Aug 13, 2014 at 13:57 | comment | added | Danu | Could you perhaps expand the answer to actually cover the relevant physics to understand this phenomenon? | |
| Aug 13, 2014 at 13:38 | comment | added | Max Williams | Do you think that a frozen person, for example, might shatter into a million pieces when hit with a bullet fired from a handgun? Is there a rough temperature they would need to be reduced to? And is it possible to reduce them to this temperature by spilling liquid nitrogen or anything else on them? | |
| Aug 13, 2014 at 13:33 | review | First posts | |||
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| Aug 13, 2014 at 13:28 | history | answered | Knut Gjerden | CC BY-SA 3.0 |