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ok. so there is a vending machine filled with a hunk of dry ice. when the customer presses the button, the un-carbonated water-syrup mix comes down on a conveyer belt where there is a plexi-glass window. a chunk of dry ice is cut, and added, and it treats the customer to a neat visual effect. there is
a warning on the bottom of the cup warning them to drink only when the dry ice is gone. a bit of an inconvinence, but the fog looks really cool. the dry ice carbonates and cools, because it is solid CO2.
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"the dry ice carbonates"
I thought you needed high pressures to
significantly increase the concentration of
carbon dioxide in a liquid. |
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The level of carbonation due to the ice is noticable, but not precisly like that of an ordinary soda. |
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//there is a warning on the bottem of the cup warning them to drink only when the dry ice is gone// hahahahahahahahahahahahaha!! |
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Best line by a newbie....ever! |
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Yeah, just like the cup of coffee that I got out of the vending machine that said, "Warning! This is liquid is very hot!" Which was a great warning but it did me no good by it being on the bottom! |
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Strangely enough, dry ice does just the opposite at standard pressures. The sublimation serves as perfect nucleation sites for any dissolved CO2, effectively flattening any carbonated drink. |
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It does however form a bit of carbonic acid, which has a unique taste, and later decomposes into CO2 and water. |
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"a unique taste" - bitter, almost salty, as I remember it. |
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//there is a warning on the bottom of the cup warning them to drink only when the dry ice is gone.// |
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Build a better mouse trap and the world will beat a path to your door.
But build a better lawyer trap, and the result may be too gruesome and costly to imagine. |
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