Dry Ice News Articles - What to do with Dry Ice
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Asphalt Gets Big Chill With Dry IceAsphalt paving work looks rough-and-ready, but it's actually a ballet. To speed the cooling and thus core the paving sooner, contractors use dry ice. |
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Liquid CO2 Spices Up FoodCold grinding is a process using liquid CO2 to flash-freeze unground herbs and spices so they can shatter in the grinder rather than get mashed. Essential oils are preserved and the texture of the finished product is more uniform and attractive. |
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Faster Computing With Dry IceRecent experiments have used dry ice in copper containers full of alcohol to get chip speeds up to 5 gigahertz, two or more times the speed attainable with ordinary cooling. Dry ice has enabled performance of the newest computer CPU chip designs to reach a new upper limit |
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No "Silent Night" On Mars, Due To Dry IceRecently, scientists from NASA, Oregon State University, and Southwest Research Institute in Boulder, Colorado, observed enough energy release over the Martian south pole to cause tempests of 30-miles-per-hour downdrafts and spiraling winds driving what are theorized to be salt-sized grains of dry ice. |
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Make Your Own Root Beer with Dry IceIf you are planning a party for the holidays or the big game and need a lot of root beer, you will find this homemade root beer recipe useful. |
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Use Dry Ice For Quick And Low-Cost Dent RepairFor low-cost, paintless dent repair to your car, try dry ice. Park your car with the dent in the sun and let the dent and surrounding sheet metal warm up. Then, wearing protective gloves, put a small block of dry ice over the dent. The rapid chilling of the metal will "pop" the dent without scratching the paint. |
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Dry Ice Made Into Glass; Are Diamonds Next?Italian scientists have made a glass-like substance from dry ice. The scientists see future uses in combining amorphous silica and amorphous carbon dioxide into very hard and stiff glasses stable at room temperatures. The ultra-hard glass will be close to diamond hardness, the scientists predict. |
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Dry Ice Can Shut Off Water Pipe For RepairsIf your water piping develops a leak and you don't know where the main shutoff valve is located, or there isn't one, you can just freeze the pipe with dry ice ahead of the leak to stop the flow until repairs can be made. |
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Power Machines With Dry Ice EnginesA novel engine, the Stirling Engine, invented in 1816 by Robert Stirling, uses the temperature differential between two surfaces to alternately heat and cool air to push and pull a piston in a cylinder, with the back-and forth motion transferred by a crankshaft to rotary motion. The temperature differential can be obtained with dry ice as well as heat. Read more about the Stirling Engine and dry ice... |
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Dry Ice Helps Flood CleanupFlood-ravaged areas, from the recent record rainfall in many parts of the country, can utilize dry ice two ways: preservation of food and other perishables from spoilage, and dry ice pellets for dry ice blasting cleanup. Read more about how to clean up after a flood with dry ice... |
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Clean Brick with Dry Ice BlastingWhether it's cleanup of new construction or removing vegetation stains, dirt, and weathering from old brick, dry ice blasting has many advantages. Read how to clean brick with dry ice blasting... |
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Catch Mosquitoes with Dry IceDry ice increases the "catch" of mosquito traps by attracting four to five times as many mosquitoes as just the light source used as the attractant in most traps. Read how to catch mosquitoes with dry ice... |
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Pushing Up DaisiesThe old term for death and burial, "pushing up daisies," may return to popular use. "Green burial" uses dry ice to preserve the human body for the funeral... |
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Sushi Needs Dry IceTo get the "freshest" sushi, fresh-caught fish are flash frozen to very cold temperatures using dry ice. Read how dry ice plays a part in your sushi... |
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Git Along Lil' Dogie... To Freeze Branding!From out of the west come the thundering hoofbeats... of a new way to mark livestock ownership. Hot branding irons are being replaced with copper irons chilled with dry ice. Learn more about branding with dry ice... |
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Carbon CaptureCarbon capture is the concept of "stowing" carbon dioxide permanently, in underground rock formations, to reduce its emission from large point sources such as electric power plants. Learn how Continental Carbonic's liquid carbon dioxide could be used in carbon capture research projects. |
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Dry Ice Is A RainmakerIn 1946, cloud seeding with dry ice was discovered accidentally in a General Electric laboratory in New York. Since then, cloud seeding has been used to create rain in many parts of the world. Learn more about dry ice cloud seeding operations. |
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LCO2 to Extract Underground OilA new technology using carbon dioxide bubbles to extract underground oil may increase the recoverable oil reserves of the United States by 89 billion barrels, a big increase over the present proved reserves of 21.9 billion barrels. Learn more about how Liquid Carbon Dioxide plays a role in this new technology. |
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New York Dry IceAs part of their "Information For A Healthy New York" program, the New York State Department of Health has issued a two-page brochure, "What Is Dry Ice?". |
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Fun with Dry Ice - The Singing SpoonLearn how to generate a singing sound with this fun dry ice experiment! |
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Keeping Your Food During a Power Failure with Dry IceWhether it's a summer windstorm or winter ice storm, what do you do with a freezer full of food when the power fails? Continental Carbonic Products, Inc. has gathered information on using dry ice to keep your food during a power failure. |
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Create Spooky Halloween Special Effects with Dry IceIt wouldn't be Halloween without spooky fog created by dry ice! Learn how to create special Halloween effects with dry ice with these simple directions. |
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Save and Enjoy Fish Filets with Flash Freezing Going fishing and expect to come home with a large quantity of fish or fish filets? |
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Home Super Freeze "Canning" Using Dry IceDo you want to preserve berries, green beans and peas from your own garden, without heat? |
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Keep Food Safe Using Dry Ice During A Power OutageDuring a temporary or long-term power outage, dry ice may by your best answer to keep your frozen and refrigerated foods safe. Learn how to use dry ice to save your food. |
