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Can the freezing point of Nitrogen be reduced?

Physics Asked by Paul De Jong on May 16, 2021

There was an interesting Q/A about mixing helium and nitrogen. Is there anything that can be added to liquid nitrogen to reduce it’s freezing point to below 63 kelvin?

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Low temperature phase diagrams are reasonably abundant in the literature. For simplicity I considered an oxygen-nitrogen mixture which, at the right proportions, is basically air.

C.S. Barrett et al. in the Journal of Chemical Physics published just such a paper in 1967. Figure 1 shows the phase diagram they determined. Adding oxygen to nitrogen lowers the freezing point, with a eutectic at about 50K at perhaps 22 at.% nitrogen. However, the ~20 at.% oxygen in air looks to drop the freezing point of nitrogen by some 7K or so.

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Answered by Jon Custer on May 16, 2021

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