Another interesting 'dont try this at home'. I work in a soft drink plant, repairing and maintaining the machinery. We just installed a bottled water line in the plant. Inorder to get the bottles 'hard' for consumer appeal and logistics, we put a small dose of nitrogen in each bottle just after it is filled. I, being a former watcher of mr wizard, wondered what would happen if I filled a bottle up with nitrogen. Just at the right moment, i stopped the filler and jogged and put an emtpty bottle under the nitrogen doser and manually forced about 2 inches of nitrogen into the bottle. Starte up the systme to allow the bottle to be capped so i could check out my experiment. About 20 feet down the line is a reject system that verifys any bottle is filled tot he correct level. If it isnt, it gets rejected into a reject bin. I noticed a supervisor looking into the reject bin to see how many rejects we were getting this day so I thought I better go get my experiment before I got into trouble for screwing off. Just I looked to see where it was, I noticed it had grown incredibly large, barley squeezing its way thru the conveyor. I decided it was too dangerous to try to get it so I couldnt do anything but watch.
To my horror, the red 'reject' light lit up on the detector and the
rejector fired the bottle right into the bin. it was a 1 litre bottle. it had grown to the size of a football. The 'experiment' sat right infront of the supervisor who was astonished at what it was. Just before he reached in to inspect it further .KABOOOOOOOMMMM!!!!!!! it blew the entire contents of the bin in all directions. Luckily, nobody was seriously hurt, but, what i did learn from all this is that gas nitrogen takes up 700 times the volume of the liquid it boiled from and this could be dangerous.
