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Gaby Scanlon, from Heysham, Lancashire, was celebrating her 18th birthday with friends at Oscar's wine bar and bistro in Lancaster earlier this month when she drank two shots of the liqueur Jagermeister, which was laced with liquid nitrogen.
The chemical, which is extremely cold and only exists at temperatures of between -210C and -196C starts to evaporate the moment it comes into contact with room temperature air, creating a dramatic dry-ice effect.
It was made popular by celebrity chefs, including Heston Blumenthal, and is completely harmless as a gas.
But if the nitrogen has not burned away fully, as a liquid it has the power to freeze objects in a matter of seconds. Touching the liquid can give you severe cryogenic, or cold, burns.
Miss Scanlon said she felt fine after her first drink but suffered "excruciating pain" the moment she drank the second, offered to her by the bar man because it was her birthday.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/963...d-nitrogen-cocktail-speaks-of-her-ordeal.html
The chemical, which is extremely cold and only exists at temperatures of between -210C and -196C starts to evaporate the moment it comes into contact with room temperature air, creating a dramatic dry-ice effect.
It was made popular by celebrity chefs, including Heston Blumenthal, and is completely harmless as a gas.
But if the nitrogen has not burned away fully, as a liquid it has the power to freeze objects in a matter of seconds. Touching the liquid can give you severe cryogenic, or cold, burns.
Miss Scanlon said she felt fine after her first drink but suffered "excruciating pain" the moment she drank the second, offered to her by the bar man because it was her birthday.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/963...d-nitrogen-cocktail-speaks-of-her-ordeal.html