Great scene from Terminator 2, the sequence where the T-1000 turns into a statue under the effects of liquid nitrogen before being sprayed by the T-800 is above all a pure cinema invention. Because no, it doesn't work like that in real life!
There are thousands of ways of dying in the cinema, the simplest and basic way, with the most extravagant. And this, whatever the genre addressed. At the cost of a granted suspension of disbelief, a concept born in 1817 which consists in saying that the reader or the spectator of a fictional work accepts, the time to consult the work, to put aside his skepticism, we are ready to accept almost anything. After all, that's also the magic of cinema.
It does not prevent it from being sometimes useful to calmly put certain clocks on time certain received ideas. Like the insane sequence that can be seen in the very end of this SF monument that is Terminator 2.
Remember: after a Dantesque chase, John Connor, his mother and the T-800 eventually tumble into a foundry. The T-1000 is at their case, at the wheel of a tank truck filled with liquid nitrogen. In the ensuing accident, the tank is ripped off, and nitrogen pours, freeze the T-1000 to the point of transforming it into a statue. Our favorite Arnie has only to house a ball well placed to disperse it like a puzzle.
Here is the sequence, for fun.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ha8-nkhumbo
When we see this sequence, as in other films elsewhere, liquid nitrogen seems to be the coldest thing ever seen. He arrives the same fate to Christian Slater in the film Profession Profiler of Renny Harlin, in 2005. And more trashy. We will not talk about This sequenceeven more trash, exit from Jason X …
A great idea … cinema!
However, this idea of freezing almost instantly and breaking under the effects of liquid nitrogen is indeed a pure invention of cinema.
According to handlesthe National Health Safety Agency, the main dangers linked to liquid nitrogen are frostbite and asphyxiation (hypoxia). “If the first is well known due to the extremely low temperature of nitrogen in the liquid state (-196 ° C), the second is much less so, although it can be fatal. The hypoxic risk of liquid nitrogen is linked to the capacity of liquid nitrogen to generate quickly, by evaporation, a large volume of gas nitrogen, thus causing a reduction in the oxygen rate by displacement and dilution of oxygen” specifies the organization.
What if you take liquid nitrogen in the face? Look at this test, the interested party does not finish exactly like the T-1000!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L1xRSPREAVI
In addition to being used in cryotherapy, liquid nitrogen is also used for rapid food freezing, metal recycling, or even refrigeration in electronics, to name only these few examples.
Still, it remains that its use offered us one of many and fabulous scenes from Terminator 2. Thank you James!
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