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Lowry illustrates his point in the video by dropping a bottle of liquid nitrogen into a bin of warm water and quickly dumping 1,650 ping pong balls into the bin.
The nitrogen turns to gas as the water heats it to its boiling point -- 320 degrees below zero -- and the resulting "cannon" effect launches the ping pong balls into the air with a resounding boom.
Lowry said he hopes the experiment will inspire people to learn more about science.
"For me, experiments like this are the shop window for science. They create the wow factor that is usually followed by the question, 'why?'. My hope is that such experiments will excite young (and not so young) minds to ask how and why such things happen and hence to delve deeper into science," Lowry said.