Today i just found a store that sells dry ice. I was so excited i got myself 1.5 lbs of it. Right now I am drinking grape kool-aid, vodka, and dry ice. I think I am going to buy a crap load for Halloween. Well I just wanted to tell some one. Does and body have and good ideas for dry ice?
I’ve seen warnings that recommend against putting dry ice in individual glasses. There’s a real risk of frost bite if your skin comes into contact with it. Like the skin of your lips, you know?
What kind of store is it? I’d love to buy some, but I don’t know where to go.
My neighbor used to put dry ice in 2 liter bottles and throw them at us. They would explode. Luckily for us(and him too I guess) eh had petty bad aim and we never actually got hit by the exploding soda bottles. He would have been in really deep doggy doo if one of them had.
One thing that is fun is to put dry ice in a bottle and leave the lid off. If you hold it upside down, it will shoot up into the air like a rocket. I also like to push dry ice along smooth surfaces. It looks like and air hockey puck. Very cool.
-Take a 600ml pop bottle.
-Take the cap and make a little hole in it.
-Take a toothpick, not just any toothpick, one of those ones that starts fat and gradually goes into a point.
-Take a straw and tape it to the side of the bottle.
-Tie fishing line from one end of your backyard to the other(im sure that you could go longer, but i havent tried)
-Thread the fishing line through the straw, and pull the line taught. (you should now have the bottle hanging off the line)
-Fill 1/4 full of hot water.
-Add dry ice and put on the cap.
-quicky jam the toothpick into the hole in the cap, jam it in there good baby, make a good seal.
-wait a while, when most of the dry ice has turned into gas, pull out the toothpick.
-WEEEEEE!
-note: Do not stand directly behind the bottle at any time, doing so will result in you being called a moron.
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Okay, they’re your lips. I hope you don’t have to kiss them goodbye. 
Dry ice always reminds me of parties in grade school where we each got a cupcake and one of those little cups of vanilla ice-cream with the icky wooden spoon.
You swallow a chip of dry ice, and you’ll get frostbite somewhere that mommy won’t be able to kiss and make it all better. Always handle it with a heavy pair of gloves, kids. Uncle Larry would have wanted that way…
Put a lump in a pot of warm water, and you get a pot of fog that bubbles over and pours out - very cool for halloween. Put a bowl of warm water inside your pumpkin, and add dry ice, and your pumpkin will have fog pouring out of it. But you won’t keep a candle lit inside it, so you’ll have to use some sort of electrical light to make it glow. Or a chemlight or glowstick.
I’ve seen a big cauldron full of water and dry ice used as a beer cooler at parties, but it didn’t work so well. It kept the beer cold enough, but the fog made it difficult to find the brew, and we ended up at the end of the night with a big block of water ice at the bottom, and several cans frozen in amoungst it.
Drop a fist-sized chip of dry ice on a hard smooth flat surface, like a metal sink or maybe a countertop, and it will sit and sizzle and scream as the gas underneath squeeks out from under the edges of where it makes contact.
Bah. The trick is to just keep your hand open (not closed around it), and toss it up in the air when you start to feel your skin freezing.
Ok, I know that’s stupid, but I prefer to do things the stupid way.
If you can get your hands on a microcentrifuge tube (other things work too, but they’re a good size and strength), put a little chip in, then hold it closed with pliers. After a little bit, you can see liquid CO2. After a little bit longer, it blows the top open and flies across the room.
Most liquor stores sell dry ice. It’s not that cheap around here, though – I think about $7 a pound. And you really shouldn’t handle it without gloves.
We usually throw a little chunk into the punchbowl on Hallowe’en. When the fog starts to thin, we throw in another little chunk. You can easily make a pound of dry ice last until the last little monster is picked up from the party by his Mom.
Be real careful with this stuff and any kind of closed container. For example, DO NOT buy it a day early and think you can keep it in a thermos.
Take a piece of dry ice and POP IT IN YOUR MOUTH!
Make sure you have your mouth really wet with saliva…
and don’t let it touch your teeth, or they’ll freeze and shatter.
You’ll get a great smoky-mouth-and-nose effect,
but your mouth will taste like seltzer water.
You notice how a drop of water wil simply float above a VERY hot pan on a stove? Its the same effect.
Oh, yeah, dry ice is the best!
When I was a kid, my father would order steaks in the mail. They came packed in dry ice. He’d take the ice and dump it in two big laundry sinks we had in the cellar, and run some water in the sinks.
My sister and I would get wooden spoons and bend over the sinks, pretending to be witches stirring our brew.
Excellent fun.
I make dry ice all the time at work. Occasionally I will have to drain a CO2 tank to repair it (I work in a paintball store) and I always make sure to save the dry ice thats left over. There’s nothing like walking out into a store full of customers and explaining that the smoke around thier ankles is the result of a “failed experiment”…They always wonder what I’m up to
Similar to what someone said earlier- Take a gatorade bottle, throw a big old hunk of dry ice in there, dump a readied container of water in there, tighten the lid, as quickly as you can, and run. No matter how fast you run, it will still be one of the loudest things you ever hear.
Oh yeah, TOO. Now I know how you get all those women.
TOO: “Oh, it’s just harmless mist. Isn’t it cool!?”
Random Girl: “Oh, it’s sooooo romantic. Here, take my phone number, PLEASE!!!”
TOO: “OK… if I have to :)”
TOO: <aside> “DAMN!!! Spanish fly and tequila in a humidifier, why haven’t I thought of this before!?”
I had a high school chemistry teacher who would do that. This habit, and the fact that he was a doofus, lead me to transfer out of his class real quick.
I’m betting that this year’s Darwin Awards are going to include a few references to dry ice.
It looks pretty neat in a swimming pool at night with the pool lights on.