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Dry Ice doesn't have a liquid state under normal conditions; it transforms straight from solid to gas. In order to melt dry ice, it would need to be at a higher outside pressure than our atmosphere provides -- at least five times the air pressure at sea level. Then it would melt, but at normal Earth temperatures, would almost immediately boil.

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