{"id":580,"date":"2008-03-24T21:57:55","date_gmt":"2008-03-24T21:57:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ryan.hellyer.kiwi\/2008\/03\/24\/nmr-quench\/"},"modified":"2025-07-10T19:05:11","modified_gmt":"2025-07-10T18:05:11","slug":"nmr-quench","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.hellyer.kiwi\/ryanhellyer\/2008\/nmr-quench\/","title":{"rendered":"NMR Quench"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Our 500 MHz NMR machine quenched itself today \ud83d\ude41 Here is an awful quality photo I took of the aftermath.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ryan.hellyer.kiwi\/files\/2008\/03\/nmr_quench1.jpg\" alt=\"NMR Quench\" \/><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ryan.hellyer.kiwi\/files\/2008\/03\/nmr_quench2.jpg\" alt=\"NMR Quench\" \/><\/p>\n<p>To make things worse, our other machine (300 MHz one) has been out of action since late last year, so we now have no NMR access whatsoever &#8230; for any non-chemists out there, this is bad, VERY bad!<\/p>\n<h3>MRI Quenching<\/h3>\n<p>I did some YouTubing and found this video of an MRI machine quenching itself (MRI and NMR are very similar instruments).<\/p>\n<p>[youtube width=&#8221;350&#8243; height=&#8221;292&#8243;]http:\/\/youtube.com\/watch?v=1R7KsfosV-o[\/youtube]<\/p>\n<h3>Liquid Helium<\/h3>\n<p>The NMR machine was full of liquid helium. 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