The low temperature of liquid oxygen and the vapors it releases not only pose a serious burn hazard to human tissue, but can also cause many materials of construction to lose their strength and become brittle enough to shatter.

• 液氧和其释放的蒸气的低温不仅会导致人体组织的严重冻伤，而且还能使许多材料失去弹性，脆得足以破裂。