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  2. Freeze spray - Wikipedia

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    Spray containing propane, butane, and ethanol, for dental applications. Freeze spray (cold spray or vapocoolant) is a type of aerosol spray product containing a liquified gas used for rapidly cooling surfaces, in medical and industrial applications. It is usually sold in hand-held spray cans.

  3. Butane - Wikipedia

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    Butane is the most commonly abused volatile substance in the UK, and was the cause of 52% of solvent related deaths in 2000. [36] By spraying butane directly into the throat, the jet of fluid can cool rapidly to −20 °C (−4 °F) by expansion, causing prolonged laryngospasm. [37] "

  4. Cooling bath - Wikipedia

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    Cooling baths are generally one of two types: (a) a cold fluid (particularly liquid nitrogen, water, or even air) — but most commonly the term refers to (b) a mixture of 3 components: (1) a cooling agent (such as dry ice or ice); (2) a liquid "carrier" (such as liquid water, ethylene glycol, acetone, etc.), which transfers heat between the ...

  5. Catalytic heater - Wikipedia

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    The following substances are able to help oxidize a fuel for a catalytic heater at a useful rate: Platinum can be used with natural gas, propane and butane. It generates a surface temperature of 300–550 °C, lower than the 760 °C ignition point. [6] Pt heaters are the most common type. [7] Palladium can be used with

  6. Water-reactive substances - Wikipedia

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    Magnesium has a mild reaction with cold water. The reaction is short-lived because the magnesium hydroxide layer formed on the magnesium is almost insoluble in water and prevents further reaction. Mg(s) + 2H 2 O(l) Mg(OH) 2 (s) + H 2 (g) [11] A metal reacting with cold water will produce a metal hydroxide and hydrogen gas.

  7. Deposition (phase transition) - Wikipedia

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    Water vapour from humid winter-air deposits directly into a solid, crystalline frost pattern on a window, without ever being liquid in the process. Deposition is the phase transition in which gas transforms into solid without passing through the liquid phase. Deposition is a thermodynamic process.

  8. Liquefaction of gases - Wikipedia

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    There the gas is liquefied in the condenser, where the heat of vaporization is released, and evaporated in the evaporator, where the heat of vaporization is absorbed. Ammonia was the first such refrigerant , and is still in widespread use in industrial refrigeration, but it has largely been replaced by compounds derived from petroleum and ...

  9. Evaporation - Wikipedia

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    The matki/matka, a traditional Indian porous clay container used for storing and cooling water and other liquids. The botijo, a traditional Spanish porous clay container designed to cool the contained water by evaporation. Evaporative coolers, which can significantly cool a building by simply blowing dry air over a filter saturated with water.