dry ice

porktaco

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guess what we brought home this week?

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yes. dry ice. good times for budding scientific types.

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and for budding photographic types

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after the application of much hot water, the block fit into a small pot

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more hot water please

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eventually, though, even the best of times must end

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yeah. they had it in the supermarket just after the checkout. i always thought it was a chemistry supply kind of a thing, but apparently i grew up in antediluvian times
 
this stuff is totally unknown to people where I live, but I have seen some cool movies on youtube where people used it to straigthen out dents in cars!

The idea is that the metal around the dent is cooled down so much that it shrinks and effectively makes the dent 'pop back up' into shape.

And, cool shots too!
 
Very cool shots! Great idea, porktaco. You certainly don't get it in supermarkets around here - I think party supplies places might sell it. Thanks for the idea - my kids will love this stuff.
 
lol. my kids insisted on using hot water. i had a friend ask "why no dry ice bombs?" perhaps i was lucky we didn't have any plastic bottles at hand.
 
:-D I remember an ice cream shop that used to give some cubes of dry ice when you bought a big bowl of ice cream, to keep it cool while returning home.

It was the '80s, today they would get sued if somebody get an iceburn...
never seen this funny thing again.... :-(
 
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