Hello,
The article was very nicely written and covered a lot of points. One thing I would like to say thought, according to the dry ice website, dry ice was actually discovered and not invented. Dry ice the produce was trademarked by the people that first sold it.
-Tucker
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No biggie, you’ll know for next time.
And Karen does use “invented” in quotation marks, meaning that she’s making a joke.
Karen said she didn’t know who “invented” (i.e., discovered) dry ice.
It was French chemist Charles Thilorier, who observed it in 1834 as a by-product of his work with liquid (and pressurized) CO[sub]2[/sub].
For a sec, I thought the title was “Dry Ice Addiction” and I pictured pushers and junkies and “freezing galleries” where addicts injected or sniffed vapours or whatever.