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# Don't use a thermos!
Really bad idea. Tescos and sainsburies occasionally get their grapes in polystyrene boxes. I suggest one of those, but be carefully of sloshing. alternatively, just by a (DENSE) block of the stuff and carve a container. Don't forget to wax it to prevent leakage.
(, Mon 24 Nov 2003, 19:20, archived)
# Li. Ni2 is superfluid,
isn't it? That means in could leak into the inner glass bit of the thermos, even though other liquids couldn't, and then expand, and then explode with glass going everywhere.

Hmm. Nice if you're carrying it at the time...
(, Mon 24 Nov 2003, 19:24, archived)
# Nah
liquid helium's superfluid, I don't recall nitrogen being so as well.
The temp difference would probably shatter it going in, and the increased pressure as it evaporated would definitely
(, Mon 24 Nov 2003, 19:30, archived)
# That's the one
I was thinking of. Nitrogen, Helium, pah. It's all Chemistry that. Not my department :-)
(, Mon 24 Nov 2003, 19:32, archived)