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Make a Big Dry Ice Bubble

Have fun making a dry ice bubble that will grow and grow as it fills with fog. This
experiment is a great one for adults to do with kids. Add water to the dry ice, cover it
with a layer of soapy water and watch your bubble grow, how big will it get before it
bursts? Give it a try and find out!
What you'll need:

Water
A large bowl with a lip around the top (a smaller bowl or cup will work too)
A strip of material or cloth
Soapy mixture for making bubbles (water and some dishwashing liquid should
do the trick)
Dry ice - one piece for a cup, more for a bowl. Places where adults can buy
dry ice include large grocery stores and Walmart. Butchers and ice cream
stores might have some too.

Safety first! Be careful with dry ice as it can cause skin damage if not used safely.
Adults should handle dry ice with gloves and avoid directly breathing in the vapor.

Instructions:
1.Place your dry ice in the bowl and add some water (it should start looking like a
spooky cauldron).
2.Soak the material in your soapy mixture and run it around the lip of the bowl before
dragging it across the top of the bowl to form a bubble layer over the dry ice.
3.Stand back and watch your bubble grow!

What's happening?
Dry ice is carbon dioxide (CO2) in its solid form. At temperatures above -56.4 C (69.5 F), dry ice changes directly from a solid to a gas, without ever being a liquid.
This process is called sublimation. When dry ice is put in water it accelerates the
sublimation process, creating clouds of fog that fill up your dry ice bubble until the
pressure becomes too much and the bubble explodes, spilling fog over the edge of
the bowl. Dry ice is sometimes used as part of theater productions and performances
to create a dense foggy effect. It is also used to preserve food, freeze lab samples
and even to make ice cream!

What is dry ice?


Dry Ice is frozen carbon dioxide, a normal part of our earth's atmosphere. It is the gas
that we exhale during breathing and the gas that plants use in photosynthesis. It is

also the same gas commonly added to water to make soda water. This gas is often
captured during industrial processes and recycled to make Dry Ice.
Dry Ice is particularly useful for freezing, and keeping things frozen because of its very
cold temperature: -109.3F or -78.5C. Dry Ice is widely used because it is simple to
freeze and easy to handle using insulated gloves. Dry Ice changes directly from a solid
to a gas -sublimation- in normal atmospheric conditions without going through a wet
liquid stage. Therefore it gets the name "dry ice."
As a general rule, Dry Ice will sublimate at a rate of five to ten pounds every 24 hours
in a typical ice chest. This sublimation continues from the time of purchase; therefore,
pick up Dry Ice as close to the time needed as possible. Bring an ice chest or some
other insulated container to hold the Dry Ice and slow the sublimation rate. Dry Ice
sublimates faster than regular ice melts but will extend the life of regular ice.
It is best not to store Dry Ice in your freezer because your freezer's thermostat will shut
off the freezer due to the extreme cold of the Dry Ice! Of course if the freezer is broken,
Dry Ice will save all your frozen goods.
Commercial shippers of perishables often use dry ice even for non frozen goods. Dry
ice gives more than twice the cooling energy per pound of weight and three times the
cooling energy per volume than regular water ice (H2O). It is often mixed with regular
ice to save shipping weight and extend the cooling energy of water ice. Sometimes
dry ice is made on the spot from liquid CO2. The resulting dry ice snow is packed in
the top of a shipping container offering extended cooling without electrical refrigeration
equipment and connections.

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