Chapter 6, Page 26
Safe Handling of LN7C-2 Liquid Nitrogen
Supplied by Arctica Industries
[Section 2.6]
In the event LN7C-2 makes contact with skin, depending on various factors such as room temperature and oxygen concentration, the liquid nitrogen may cause the afflicted area to undergo partial or complete cryonic solidification. Depending on failure to immediately treat or preserve skin, the afflicted area may become extremely brittle. Should the area be further injured, this could result in permanent damage, limb loss (depending on where contact was made), and/or death.
Danger Zone One. Story by Midnight. Art by Salaiix.
I guess you could say the doctor’s dreams were shattered…
Btw, love all of the characters’ expressions on this page!
That’s cold.
What a wast of a perfectly good villain.
She was awfully quick to use that conversion concoction on herself.
It wouldn’t surprise me if she has a clone lurking about, or even already on the mainland.
The assassin got her point across and it has caused the good doctor to go to pieces.
I should mention liquid nitrogen does not work that way. The heat of the body would produce a zone of gas that would protect the body from coming in contact with the liquid at first.
Even if she was submerged in a vat of N2 it would take considerable time to freeze her solid. So in this case at best her skin and the up layer of tissue would flake of in a most horrifying way
This is a fantasy webic where a mad scientist turned herself into a shark-tentacle hybrid-monster, and you are getting hung up about how liquid hydrogen reacts to human skin? o_O
Liquid Nitrogen!
Seconded, it should be mentioned, lest readers may assume it could. If wearing some fabric you can get quite frozen very quickly, touching a piece of metal that is very cold is also a really bad day. But direct contact between liquid nitrogen and bare skin simply doesn’t happen: it goes gaseous before making contact. And at that point it’s essentially just cold air without oxygen in it. Unless in large amounts in confined spaces, no need to worry about lack of oxygen. Liquid nitrogen can be dangerous, don’t handle it without understanding it, but for something found in a gas bottle it is relatively harmless.
Now, what is used in the comic is not normal liquid nitrogen but LN7C-2, which I have no idea what it is. It seems vaguely plausible to circumvent the Leidenfrost effect by creating a liquid for which skin is relatively permeable and skin oils don’t highly inhibit wetting. If it worked, I guess it would destroy the skin very thoroughly. On the other hand, sharkskin, probably… which further complicates things.
And, shark-bitch reforms with nasty(er) attitude and they have to fight her all over again, with the disadvantage of they are injured and she is fully healed
Had hopes for that assassin when she first appeared, she can die now
Thats not how any of that works.
First as others have mentioned liquid nitrogen doesn’t interact that way w/ tissue. To the point where promission (a proposed way of freezing then grinding up people as a burial alternative) is currently nonviable.
Further, thats simply not how brittle fracture works in things other than glass panes and similar
LOL. I take it you’ve worked with LN7C-2 before? Have you personally seen what it does to mutant human-shark hybrids?