It doesn t take liquid nitrogen to do this.
Liquid nitrogen tank explosion.
The lines that were ruptured as i told you earlier were shut down we re currently off gassing a couple of.
Wegner said the explosion happened when a 3 inch liquid nitrogen line ruptured.
The explosion in a 3 inch liquid nitrogen gas line also damaged a storage tank causing nitrogen gas to vent out of the building wegner said.
Because the liquid to gas expansion ratio of nitrogen is 1 694 at 20 c 68 f a tremendous amount of force can be generated if liquid nitrogen is vaporized in an enclosed space.
Why buildings fall down levy et al cites one example of a water tank head snapping through accelerating the tank until it contacted a nearby natural gas line which ruptured in turn and ended predictably.