Questions tagged [dry-ice]

questions about the solid form of carbon dioxide, commonly known as dry ice.

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A tidally-locked planet's dry ice caps

An exactly Earth-sized tidally-locked planet orbits its host star, which is functionally identical to our Sun, at an average distance of 1 AU, the same distance that the Earth orbits the Sun. The ...
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Effect of multiple tons of dry ice being dropped bomb-like into lake near a city

I have a bomberplane capable of carying a nuke. A large nuke. Let us say that I don't like the idea of wiping a city from the face of the earth. Instead, I decide to mass-produce solid CO2, and drop a ...
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