This is probably really dumb but I wanted to know how dry ice makes that smoke. Is it water vapor? Or something else and why does it burn our skin when we come into contact with it.
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Dry ice is frozen CO2. Ar atmospheric pressure, CO2 cannot exist as liquid, so it turns into gas straight from the solid. And because it’s very cold, it instantly condenses moisture in air on contacr. So yes, the visible “smoke’ is just water vapor.
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