Wollaston's cryophorus

Experiment no.: 8.4.3
Wollaston's Cryophorus
In this experiment, a heat pipe has water on one side and water vapour in the rest of the system. If the other end of the heat pipe is held in liquid nitrogen, the water freezes very quickly.

Caution: Experiment with LN2 (eye damage and cold injuries possible)!
Personal protective equipment necessary!

Images for this experiment

Experiment
Warm, when immersed in LN2
Start of freezing
Completely frozen water