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When a rubber ball is soaked in liquid oxygen, it becomes extremely brittle due to the low temperatures of the liquid oxygen, which is around -183 degrees Celsius (-297 degrees Fahrenheit). When Dewar demonstrated this, he showed that the rubber ball, once frozen, could shatter into pieces upon being dropped, illustrating the dramatic effects of extreme cold on materials. This experiment highlighted the changes in physical properties of substances at cryogenic temperatures.

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