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dry ice

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dry ice: see carbon dioxide carbon dioxide, chemical compound, CO2, a colorless, odorless, tasteless gas that is about one and one-half times as dense as air under ordinary conditions of temperature and pressure.
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dry ice

Carbon dioxide in solid form. It is a dense, colourless substance, resembling compressed snow, that at normal atmospheric pressure passes directly from solid to vapour (see sublimation) at −109.3 °F (−78.5 °C). Commonly available in blocks, it is used chiefly to keep foods, vaccines, and other perishable products cold during shipping or storage.


dry ice
solid carbon dioxide, which sublimes at --78.5?C: used as a refrigerant, and to create billows of smoke in stage shows

dry ice [¦drī ′īs]
(inorganic chemistry)
Carbon dioxide in the solid form, usually made in blocks to be used as a coolant; changes directly to a gas at -78.5°C as heat is absorbed.


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