{"id":22849,"date":"2024-04-27T11:03:59","date_gmt":"2024-04-27T05:33:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=22849"},"modified":"2025-04-06T22:28:26","modified_gmt":"2025-04-06T16:58:26","slug":"liquid-nitrogen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/liquid-nitrogen\/","title":{"rendered":"Liquid Nitrogen"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>About Liquid Nitrogen<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is an inert, colorless<strong>, odorless, noncorrosive, nonflammable<\/strong>, and extremely cold element.<\/li>\n<li>It is a <strong>cryogenic liquid<\/strong> (Cryogenic liquids are liquefied gases that have a normal boiling point below \u2013130\u00b0F (\u201390\u00b0C).<\/li>\n<li>Liquid nitrogen has a boiling point of \u2013320\u00b0F (\u2013196\u00b0C).<\/li>\n<li><strong>Health impacts:<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>Liquid nitrogen can <strong>scorch the organ<\/strong> or part of the body it contacts, making it appear like frost bites.<\/li>\n<li>It can <strong>damage the lips, tongue, throat<\/strong>, lungs, and stomach. It may cause lesions or burn tissues.<\/li>\n<li>If it reaches the stomach, the organ could get perforated. In the lungs, it <strong>could produce CO2 <\/strong>and the person could become unconscious.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Applications<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>It is used to cool and <strong>freeze food rapidly.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>In food production and industrial processes, a cooling tray filled with liquid nitrogen is used to rapidly cool materials or equipment by immersing the product in nitrogen.<\/li>\n<li>In the wellness and sports industry,<strong> cryosaunas<\/strong> with liquid nitrogen vapor are used for <strong>cryotherapy.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Liquid nitrogen test chambers are used in <strong>technology and material sciences <\/strong>to test the <strong>performance and durability of materials<\/strong> and devices at extremely low temperatures.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1: What is Cryosurgery?<\/h3>\n<p>Cryosurgery is a minimally invasive surgical technique that involves the use of extreme cold to destroy or remove abnormal tissues, such as tumors or warts. The procedure involves applying a freezing agent, such as liquid nitrogen or argon gas, directly onto the targeted area.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/national\/tamil-nadu\/liquid-nitrogen-can-be-used-only-to-preserve-food-stress-food-safety-officials\/article68106601.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Liquid nitrogen can be used only to preserve food, stress food safety officials<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Liquid Nitrogen is an inert, colorless, odorless, noncorrosive, nonflammable, and extremely cold element.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":22850,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-22849","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22849","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22849"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22849\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22850"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}