Fun Facts About Dry Ice And Carbon Dioxide
- Carbon dioxide plays a very important role: plants and animals depend upon it for life.
- Through the process of photosynthesis carbon dioxide in the air is combined with water in plants to make sugar, the sugar is then converted to starch and cellulose.
- Did you know that on average we breathe out about 1kg of carbon dioxide gas every day?
- Carbon dioxide is one of the main gases responsible for global warming. (The dry ice we manufacture is from re-cycled source and so we are not damaging the environment)
- Did you know that Carbon dioxide gives fizzy drinks their bubbles - Coke, Pepsi, Sprite - all use carbon dioxide to make the drink fizz!
- Dry ice is the solid form of carbon dioxide. At atmospheric pressure it exists as a solid at -79˚C. Dry ice changes from a solid to a gas without passing through a liquid phase, this phenomenon is called sublimation (and this is why it is called ‘dry’ ice!)
- Dry ice is great for cleaning
- Dry ice fog will always be white
- First person to observe dry ice was Charles Thilorier in 1835 - he witnessed dry ice being created when he opened a container of liquid carbon dioxide.
- Dry ice is used to keep medicines and perishable foods cold and in many engineering applications.