I don’t speak Welsh but assume this says something like ‘daffodil that was frozen in nitrogen and then crushed during first year physics lab’. I know that because I crushed and froze it myself and this photo was taken by one of the lab students, Huw Waters.
The daffodil only took a few seconds to freeze after I dipped it into the liquid nitrogen. We then crushed it as it had the texture of tissue paper and I held it for a moment until the cold started to seep through the glove. I placed the yellow shards onto the black plastic mat and then later we put another, unscathed, daff next to it as a nice comparison.
This was of course all in aid of St. David’s Day which is on March 1st and in Wales at least, a big deal. I hereby chair Huw as the bard for this lovely photo and curse myself for next bringing my camera along. Next week: we freeze bananas!
March 4th, 2007 at 9:59 pm
The title says, St. David’s Day in the Physics Laboratory, and the description on flickr in English, exactly as that in Welsh - Daffodil submerged in liquid Nitrogen, then smashed. A fresh daffodil in the background.
Nice to see some other physics orientated blogs.
One small thing regarding this website, I don’t know whether it is intentional or not, however on this page the title of the blog post has no line spacing. To the tag below replace “font-size:20px” with “font-size:20px/1.5″ or any other number.
March 4th, 2007 at 10:00 pm
Hmm. The above comment, didn’t print out the html source code. On this page, the tag contains a style.