How Dry Ice Is Made. The short answer is that dry ice is the solid form of carbon dioxide. That would be CO2, for all you scientists out there, the stuff we exhale or put into water to make ...

If you've ever just wanted to muck about with some dry ice, here are some YouTube videos with fun experiments to try — starting with making your own.

Dry ice’s most common use is to keep perishables cool during shipping. (Thomas Slate was the first to sell it to railcars in 1924.) It has a number of other fascinating uses, too.

Dry ice is a great way to keep food cold, but it isn't without some safety concerns. Before you pack a cooler with dry ice, here's how to do it safely.

Dry ice has popped out of bottles, dropped into hurricanes and slithered across many a haunted house floor. As we know after recent events, when sealed in a container, it can create an impressive ...

Dry ice is solid carbon dioxide. At its surface temperature of -109.3 degrees Fahrenheit (-78.5 degrees Celsius), a frozen block of dry ice transforms directly into a gas, skipping the liquid ...

Dry ice is very cold, −78.5°C (−109.3°F), and handling it can be tricky. A dry ice bomb can explode within seconds of being sealed. According to the Oak Lawn suit, the teacher had allegedly ...