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Rising Dead Man wrote:Are you trying to give me math lessons on the weekend?

Dry ice is frozen carbonmonoxide or frozen carbondioxide. I don't remember which, but both of them are not good to breath. In a great enough consentration, either one of them can poisen your system and kill you. Having dry ice in your house is like closing your garage door and turning on your car engine. You can be afisiated.

Mike

Pumpkin_Man wrote:Dry ice is frozen carbonmonoxide or frozen carbondioxide. I don't remember which, but both of them are not good to breath. In a great enough consentration, either one of them can poisen your system and kill you. Having dry ice in your house is like closing your garage door and turning on your car engine. You can be afisiated.

Mike

Dry ice is frozen Carbon dioxide. Carbon monoxide is what leads to death when you let your car run with the garage door closed.

Thanks for clearing that up. Carbondioxide is also poisenous to your system. It's the waist air that we exhale, and in a larg enough concentration you can afixiate on it the same way you would on carbonmonoxide. A huge block of dry ice in an ennclosed space would increas the level of carbondioxice to leathal levels. It's more like putting a plastic bag over your head then it is like running your car engine in the garage with the door closed.

Mike

I agree you should be careful when handling dry ice as it can be dangerous and direct skin contact is BAD.

I do love the stuff, though, and get a few pounds of it every Halloween. We put it in our fountain and in several jars and glasses in the apothecary. It's great stuff.

A good thing to remember is the warmer the water, the greater the reaction (more fog) from the dry ice. I like to put a sliver into a cup of hot cider for the girls. It gives a magnificent "bubbling cauldron" effect, and disipates rather quickly so it's safe to drink.

Since dry ice is solid Carbon Monoxide, it is dangerous to breath in in large doses. a little bit here and there is no bid deal, but if you are breathing in large amounts in an inclosed space, you can suffer from carbon monoxide poisoning which, in extreme cases, can be fatal.