re: colour

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re: colour

TB — 4/24/2008 2:16:17 AM (archived)

All the cryogenic gases I've worked with are colorless, but I've never seen a lake of the stuff so I have no idea how it would absorb or reflect light in any great depth. Maybe the same as water, although water's a lot more dense. There's one exception--LOX has kind of a bluish tinge.

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What would liquid nitrogen lakes/seas/oceans look like from space? - REB - 4/23/2008 9:11:48 PM
- More likely the OTHER stuff causes colour - nick hoffman - 4/23/2008 11:06:40 PM
  - I have pictured Titans lakes and seas as being thick and black. - REB - 4/24/2008 12:42:05 PM
    - Viscosity - Adam - 4/25/2008 10:39:55 AM
    - There is so little light, that distance from the sun and that far down Titan's atmosphere hole... - alcaray - 4/24/2008 6:34:38 PM
      - True - REB - 4/24/2008 9:02:07 PM
  - re: colour - TB - 4/24/2008 2:16:17 AM
    - gas vs liquid - nick hoffman - 4/24/2008 4:08:29 PM
      - Here's a question... - TB - 4/24/2008 4:47:16 PM
        
        Solvents - nick hoffman - 4/25/2008 9:34:36 AM
    - Liquid nitrogen - REB - 4/24/2008 2:04:13 PM
      - Solid phase geysers - Adam - 4/25/2008 11:32:18 AM
- re: What would liquid nitrogen lakes/seas/oceans look like from space? - SteveS - 4/23/2008 9:48:37 PM

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