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Liquid Oxygen (slow motion) - Periodic Table of Videos

2013-06-05

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Dropping hot charcoal into liquid oxygen - filmed with a high-speed camera.

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Reactions filmed with a Phantom Miro. We used this: http://www.visionresearch.com/Products/High-Speed-Cameras/Miro-M310/

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