[SteveB]

Hello.

I have a little question about liquid nitrogen and the usage of it in chemical labs. If you work in a lab as a research chemist (inorganic chemistry), do you have access to liquid nitrogen? Sorry for asking, I'm just curious about it because I'd like to be able to work with it some day. I'm just fascinated by it as I've never seen some in person.

Thank you,

- Steve

[Mitch]

Synthetic inorganic chemists will use it, organic too. I'm a nuclear chemists and we use it almost everyday to keep our detectors cold.

[SteveB]

Thank you. That sounds good.

- Steve

[Yggdrasil]

Biochemists use it too, and I'm sure physical chemists use it as well. 

If you're really interested in really, really cold liquids, you should look into low temperature physics.  One of my physics professors worked with liquid helium.  He cools down the helium to a superfluid state which has no friction due to the fact that all of the molecules are in their ground state.

Edit: broken tags corrected.