Dry Ice Research Paper

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Dry ice is a frozen carbon dioxide,a normal part of our earth’s atmosphere.Dry ice is a solid but turns into a gas which the term for this would be called sublimation.Sublimation occurs when the surface particles of a solid gains enough energy that they form a gas.Using dry ice is a way to keep the temperature low when a refrigerator is not available.People also use dry ice for projects and experiments. If you leave dry ice in a bowl at room temperature for several hours nothing would be left because the ice turns into gas.Storing dry ice into your freezer can cause damage towards it because the thermostat can be broken due to the dry ice cold temperature.Dry ice can be in two different kinds of forms,the first form is just in a huge block

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