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DaveC426913
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On the way into work, I pass through "Hospital Alley". I saw a collection of Praxair tanks with radiating fins that were covered in ice. If you put fins on something that's cold, it will warm up faster. I was trying to figure out why they would have a system that was designed to warm up the gases.
You wouldn't want to do that with N or CO2 since their raison d'etre is as a freezing agent. Radiating fins would defeat the very thing they are trying to do.
The only one I can think of is Oxygen. That's a gas that you'd store as a liquid but use as a room temp gas.
Any others that a hospital might use?
I looked up Praxair, they are suppliers of oxygen, nitrogen, argon, carbon dioxide, helium and hydrogen.
You wouldn't want to do that with N or CO2 since their raison d'etre is as a freezing agent. Radiating fins would defeat the very thing they are trying to do.
The only one I can think of is Oxygen. That's a gas that you'd store as a liquid but use as a room temp gas.
Any others that a hospital might use?
I looked up Praxair, they are suppliers of oxygen, nitrogen, argon, carbon dioxide, helium and hydrogen.