Dry ice is so cold that it can easily shut off or break your freezer, and if you put it in an airtight container first, the CO2 gas will build up pressure inside and cause it to explode. To make ...

For the more involved part of getting dry ice, a bit more science is needed. First, a compressor is used to get pressurized CO 2 into a previously evacuated tank at 160 psi (~12 bar).

At the poles, its ice caps appear white. These ice caps contain frozen water, like the ice we usually find on Earth, but these ice caps are also covered by a layer of frozen carbon dioxide – dry ...