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Misc Nitrous Chargers OK to leave in freezing cold?
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Kenny7822
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They'll be fine outside.
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Huh? Typo?
Kenny7822
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Yeah I meant to say fine
jamesBrown
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in temperatures below freezing I would be very careful. Im not sure what temperature the nitrous would have to reach to cause some sort of reaction.....but i am positive that there IS a temp that will cause some sort of serious problem, you just gotta figure out what that is.
also take into consideration that it is stored in an airtight container under serious pressure. all of these are very important pieces of information that one should consider in this circumstance.
also take into consideration that it is stored in an airtight container under serious pressure. all of these are very important pieces of information that one should consider in this circumstance.
mollycoddled
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youre good ive done this before it was fine
It is entirely safe, they will not be harmed by it.
As the temperature falls, the pressure inside the chargers will fall, but it will still remain higher than atmospheric pressure until you got below the boiling point of nitrous oxide (-88C/-126F). There is no low temperature at which the cartridges would explode (even if it were chilled enough to freeze the nitrous oxide, that would just further lower the pressure, because (like almost every material other than water), nitrous oxide takes up less volume as a solid than as a liquid - but even if that was an issue (which it's not), it wouldn't matter unless you happen to live at the north/south pole (the record-low temperatures at the poles are around the freezing point for N2O, ~ -91 C / -132 F).
You only have to worry about exposing nitrous chargers to high temperatures, because higher temperatures = higher pressures, and at some temperature (i suspect a very high one, since these can be shipped around without particular caution, and carriers abuse the hell out of packages). I'm not sure if they'd explode before the gasket softened and gave out, allowing the contents to leak out in a rapid, but non explosive, manner.
As the temperature falls, the pressure inside the chargers will fall, but it will still remain higher than atmospheric pressure until you got below the boiling point of nitrous oxide (-88C/-126F). There is no low temperature at which the cartridges would explode (even if it were chilled enough to freeze the nitrous oxide, that would just further lower the pressure, because (like almost every material other than water), nitrous oxide takes up less volume as a solid than as a liquid - but even if that was an issue (which it's not), it wouldn't matter unless you happen to live at the north/south pole (the record-low temperatures at the poles are around the freezing point for N2O, ~ -91 C / -132 F).
You only have to worry about exposing nitrous chargers to high temperatures, because higher temperatures = higher pressures, and at some temperature (i suspect a very high one, since these can be shipped around without particular caution, and carriers abuse the hell out of packages). I'm not sure if they'd explode before the gasket softened and gave out, allowing the contents to leak out in a rapid, but non explosive, manner.