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Icy Mars Clouds Mars clouds are typically made of water-ice or frozen carbon dioxide, also known as dry ice.
—Amanda Kooser, Forbes, 13 Jan. 2025
The abrupt shift can be quite violent, as both dry ice (composed of carbon dioxide) and regular ice (made of water) become much weaker and begin to break.
—Meredith Garofalo, Space.com, 6 Jan. 2025
Robert knows of people who have forced their own impairments—via acids, ethanol shots, and most often by a method involving prolonged immersion of the unwanted limb in dry ice until necrosis sets in and a surgeon is forced to amputate.
—Michelle Orange, Harper's Magazine, 14 Dec. 2023
Its pasties are shipped frozen with dry ice to most of the U.S.
—Susan Selasky, Detroit Free Press, 15 Dec. 2024
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1925, in the meaning defined above
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“Dry ice.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/dry%20ice. Accessed 20 Jan. 2025.
Kids Definition
dry ice
noun
: solid carbon dioxide
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