Dry Ice Lab

When dry ice is put into water they start to reacting and boiling. That reaction is called sublimation. Sublimation is when something solid goes straight to gas skipping the liquid phase. So because the water is warm it heats up the dry ice which causes it to form a gas. The gas is carbon dioxide.
The temperatures of everything are very strange. The water cannot be cold when trying the experiment because it will not heat up the dry ice and create carbon dioxide gasses but it will probably freeze the water. Dry ice is temperatures below freezing point and the water has to at least be at room temperature to work. When the water is hot the dry ice evaporates off quicker. Dry ice is at -109.3 degrees F or -78.5 degrees C. The temperature of the water we used was room temperature which is usually 70 degrees F or 21 degrees C. …show more content…
The components make almost anything because of the periodic table of elements. For dry ice the components are CO2 which is one part carbon dioxide and two parts oxygen. For water the components are two parts hydrogen and one part oxygen. It is called dry ice because it usually skips the water stage. The outcome of the experiment is that the water got colder with the dry ice and the dry ice turned to gas. The outcome would have turned differently if we had used cold water and a pressure pump. The dry ice would not have skipped the liquid stage. It would have carbonated the water. The pressure of the gas will mix in with the water to create bubbles to create