dry ice
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‘Horrific Accident’ Involving Dry Ice May Have Killed 77-Year-Old Woman
An ice cream delivery driver smashed the window of his car with a rock early Friday morning last week after seeing his wife and mother unconscious inside the vehicle. He found his spouse in critical condition, and his mother was dead.
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Watching Dry Ice Turn Into Gas Up Close Is Always Neat
Video: Watching dry ice sublimate (turn into gas instead of liquid) still manages to make me feel like a kid again. The kind of kid who is unsure of the difference between science and magic. OK, not quite … I’m old now and it’s impossible to ever look at things so innocently any more. But…
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What Happens When You Put A Coin Into A Block Of Dry Ice
Video: Everything starts shaking, and the coin looks like it’s trying to escape the block of dry ice in a fit of fury. The ol’ science experiment is always fun to see because everything reacts so quickly. What’s actually happening is that the coin warms up the dry ice, turning it back from solid carbon…
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Happy Hour: How To Make Alcoholic Cryospheres, Because We Can
We humans love to eat, and we love to drink. So it’s no surprise that we’re always trying to come up with solid forms of alcohol, to eat what we can drink. Alcoholic ice cream, dippin’ dots, molecular mixology and jello shots are all means to this end. So, when we heard about edible ice…