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What Is Dry Ice?

By: Kristin D Last Date Updated: 9/28/11 =** Carbon Dioxide **=

Dry ice is solid carbon dioxide. Humans breathe out carbon dioxide and carbon dioxide is used in fire extinguishers. Carbon dioxide is made up of 1 carbon and 2 oxygen atoms.
=** How dry ice is made and how it works **= ==There are two ways to make dry ice. Go from gas to liquid to solid or go from gas to solid. Once it is in the dry ice phase it does not go back.The process of going from gas to solid is called crystallization and from solid to gas is sublimation. Dry Ice becomes a gas at -78.5°C.Dry ice is frozen in 45 pound blocks.==

** Carbon Dioxide particles VS Water particles **
==Water particles want to be together so that is why they evaporate so slowly. On the other hand carbon dioxide particles don’t want to be together so they go from solid to gas if they get hot enough. Solid particles are squished together and vibrate. Liquid particles are linked together and they spin. Gas particles are not connected at all and bounce all around. So waters liquid particles want to stay together and they will until it gets too hot. Carbon dioxides particles don’t want to be together so if it gets hot they will break apart very fast. Sometimes like in dry ices case particles will skip liquid phase all together!==



=** Uses of dry ice **=

[[image:dry_ice_block_kristin.jpg caption="multiple dry ice blocks"]]
=** Dangers of dry ice **=

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