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What makes dry ice dry?

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Anonymous

12y ago
Updated: 1/28/2023

I assume you mean the sound dry ice can make if a flat piece of dry ice is forced onto a warm, smooth, non-porous surface, such as a knife blade or counter top. This happens because the dry ice is undergoing a phase change straight from a sold to a gas; the gas is trapped between the dry ice and the surface you are pressing it against, and it causes a vibration as it escapes that you hear as a squeak or a scream (this is the way all sounds are made, just vibrations propagating through the air to your ears). You will notice that the sound goes away once the surface you are holding against the dry ice cools off and stops accelerating the conversion of CO2 from a solid to a gas.

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