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Princeton's WordNet

  1. dry icenoun

    solidified carbon dioxide; dry ice sublimates at -78.5 C and is used mainly as a refrigerant

Wiktionary

  1. dry icenoun

    Carbon dioxide frozen in the solid state, used especially as a cooling agent and for the production of fog-like special effects. It sublimes at -78.5°C (-109.3°F) at normal atmospheric pressure.

  2. Etymology: A genericised trademark of Prest Air Devices

Wikipedia

  1. Dry ice

    Dry ice is the solid form of carbon dioxide. It is commonly used for temporary refrigeration as CO2 does not have a liquid state at normal atmospheric pressure and sublimates directly from the solid state to the gas state. It is used primarily as a cooling agent, but is also used in fog machines at theatres for dramatic effects. Its advantages include lower temperature than that of water ice and not leaving any residue (other than incidental frost from moisture in the atmosphere). It is useful for preserving frozen foods (such as ice cream) where mechanical cooling is unavailable. Dry ice sublimates at 194.7 K (−78.5 °C; −109.2 °F) at Earth atmospheric pressure. This extreme cold makes the solid dangerous to handle without protection from frostbite injury. While generally not very toxic, the outgassing from it can cause hypercapnia (abnormally elevated carbon dioxide levels in the blood) due to buildup in confined locations.

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  1. dry ice

    Dry ice is the solid form of carbon dioxide, a gas. It is used primarily as a cooling agent due to its extremely low temperature and the fact that it sublimates directly from a solid to a gas without passing through the liquid phase. It is called "dry ice" because it does not leave any residue when it changes state, unlike regular ice.

Wikidata

  1. Dry ice

    Dry ice, sometimes referred to as "Cardice" or as "card ice", is the solid form of carbon dioxide. It is used primarily as a cooling agent. Its advantages include lower temperature than that of water ice and not leaving any residue. It is useful for preserving frozen foods, ice cream, etc., where mechanical cooling is unavailable. Dry ice sublimates at −78.5 °C at Earth atmospheric pressures. This extreme cold makes the solid dangerous to handle without protection due to burns caused by freezing. While generally not very toxic, the outgassing from it can cause hypercapnia due to buildup in confined locations.

U.S. National Library of Medicine

  1. Dry Ice

    A solid form of carbon dioxide used as a refrigerant.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of dry ice in Chaldean Numerology is: 7

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of dry ice in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1

Examples of dry ice in a Sentence

  1. Sylvain Piqueux:

    Because carbon dioxide ice has a symmetry of four, we know dry-ice snowflakes would be cube-shaped, thanks to the Mars Climate Sounder, we can tell these snowflakes would be smaller than the width of a human hair.

  2. Marcus Plescia:

    Pfizer is going to have special boxes they ship the vaccines in, packed with dry ice, once you get the box, it'll keep the stuff at negative 80 degrees for 10 days.

  3. The St. John:

    We tested chemical reagents, organic solvents, mineral abrasives, we tried trying to shoot crushed-up dry ice at the stone under high pressure.


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