Dry Ice News Articles - What to do with Dry Ice

Hurricane and Storm Tips: Save Your Food With Dry Ice

In this season of storms, what do you do with a freezer full of food when the power fails?  Read how to use dry ice to keep your food from spoiling during a storm.

Penguin Cold Caps® Cooled with Dry Ice May Eliminate Hair Loss for Chemotherapy Patients

Many cancer patients undergoing chemotherapy treatments have found the use of super cooled “cold caps” to be an effective way to reduce or prevent hair loss. Learn more about using dry ice to cool Penguin Cold Caps.

Dry Ice Kills Gophers and Moles in Lawns

We all want beautiful, pest-free, smooth green lawns. When unsightly mole or gopher tunnels and hills pop up in our lawns, we want to eliminate them. Convenient half-inch pellets of dry ice from Continental Carbonic Products can be used to kill these lawn pests without endangering children, birds or family pets.

Remove Bed Bugs with Dry Ice

Find out if you have bed bugs by making a bed bug trap with dry ice. Bed bugs are attracted to the heat of bodies and to carbon dioxide, or CO2, which is a gas exhaled by humans and animals. Dry ice is solid carbon dioxide and gives off CO2 gas which can draw bed bugs into a trap constructed with dry ice as the lure.

How to Kill Clothes Moths with Dry Ice

You just got out your winter wool clothes and blankets because the cold winter weather came along and there was a moth hole, furrow, or threadbare spot. Clothes moths!!! Learn how to fumigate clothes moths to protect your stored fabrics.

How to Preserve Seeds And Grains with Dry Ice

Store seeds for next year with dry ice. Learn how to use dry ice to maintain the post-harvest quality of seeds by controlling insects, bacteria, and fungi that attack stored seeds and grain.

How to Weld or Repair a Motorcycle Gas Tank Safely

In order to weld a gasoline fuel tank safely, you need to first remove all traces of fuel. Learn how to use dry ice to remove flammable fumes from fuel tanks.

Dry Ice Makes Tanks Safer For Repair or Removal

Tanks that have contained flammable liquids are hazardous to workers repairing or removing them. Read how to use dry ice to remove oxygen and other hazardous materials from tanks to make them safe for repairs or removal.

Asphalt Gets Big Chill With Dry Ice

Asphalt paving work looks rough-and-ready, but it's actually a ballet. To speed the cooling and thus core the paving sooner, contractors use dry ice with asphalt...

Liquid CO2 Spices Up Food

Cold grinding is a process using liquid CO2 to flash-freeze unground herbs and spices so they can shatter in the grinder rather than get mashed. Essential oils are preserved and the texture of the finished product is more uniform and attractive.

Faster Computing With Dry Ice

Recent experiments have used dry ice in copper containers full of alcohol to get chip speeds up to five gigahertz, two or more times the speed attainable with ordinary cooling. Dry ice has enabled performance of the newest computer CPU chip designs to reach a new upper limit

No "Silent Night" On Mars, Due To Dry Ice

Recently, scientists from NASA, Oregon State University, and Southwest Research Institute in Boulder, Colorado, observed enough energy release over the Martian south pole to cause tempests of 30-mile-per-hour downdrafts and spiraling winds driving what are theorized to be salt-sized grains of dry ice.

Make Your Own Root Beer with Dry Ice

If you are planning a party for the holidays or the big game and need a lot of root beer, you will find this homemade root beer recipe useful.

Remove Car Dents and Dings with Dry Ice

For low-cost, paintless dent repair to your car, try dry ice to fix those dents. Park your car with the dent in the sun and let the dent and surrounding sheet metal warm up. Then, wearing protective gloves, put a small block of dry ice over the dent. The rapid chilling of the metal will "pop" the dent without scratching the paint.

Dry Ice Made Into Glass; Are Diamonds Next?

Italian scientists have made a glass-like substance from dry ice. The scientists see future uses in combining amorphous silica and amorphous carbon dioxide into very hard and stiff glass stable at room temperatures. The ultra-hard glass will be close to diamond hardness, the scientists predict.

Shut Off Water Pipe For Repairs with Dry Ice

If your water piping develops a leak and you don't know where the main shutoff valve is located, or there isn't one, you can just freeze the pipe with dry ice ahead of the leak to stop the flow until repairs can be made.

Power Machines With Dry Ice Engines

A novel engine, the Stirling Engine, invented in 1816 by Robert Stirling, uses the temperature differential between two surfaces to alternately heat and cool air to push and pull a piston in a cylinder, with the back-and-forth motion transferred by a crankshaft to rotary motion. The temperature differential can be obtained with dry ice as well as heat. Read more about the Stirling Engine and dry ice...

Dry Ice Helps Flood Cleanup

Flood-ravaged areas, from the recent record rainfall in many parts of the country, can use dry ice two ways: for the preservation of food and other perishables from spoilage, for dry ice blasting cleanup using dry ice pellets. Read more about how to clean up after a flood with dry ice...

Clean Brick with Dry Ice Blasting

Whether it's cleanup of new construction or removing vegetation stains, dirt, and weathering from old brick, dry ice blasting has many advantages. Read how to clean brick with dry ice blasting...

How Do You Catch Mosquitoes with Dry Ice?

Dry ice increases the "catch" of mosquito traps by attracting four to five times as many mosquitoes as just the light source used as the attractant in most traps. Read how to catch mosquitoes with dry ice...

Pushing Up Daisies

The old term for death and burial, "pushing up daisies," may return to popular use. "Green burial" uses dry ice to preserve the human body for the funeral...

Sushi Needs Dry Ice

To get the "freshest" sushi, fresh-caught fish are flash frozen to very cold temperatures using dry ice. Read how dry ice plays a part in your sushi...

Git Along Lil' Dogie... To Freeze Branding!

From out of the west come the thundering hoofbeats... of a new way to mark livestock ownership.  Hot branding irons are being replaced with copper irons chilled with dry ice. Learn more about branding with dry ice...

Carbon Capture

Carbon capture is the concept of "stowing" carbon dioxide permanently, in underground rock formations, to reduce its emission from large point sources such as electric power plants. Learn how Continental Carbonic's liquid carbon dioxide could be used in carbon capture research projects.

Dry Ice Is A Rainmaker

In 1946, cloud seeding with dry ice was discovered accidentally in a General Electric laboratory in New York. Since then, cloud seeding has been used to create rain in many parts of the world. Learn more about dry ice cloud seeding operations.

LCO2 to Extract Underground Oil

A new technology using carbon dioxide bubbles to extract underground oil may increase the recoverable oil reserves of the United States by 89 billion barrels, a big increase over the present proven reserves of 21.9 billion barrels. Learn more about how Liquid Carbon Dioxide plays a role in this new technology.

New York Dry Ice

As part of their "Information For A Healthy New York" program, the New York State Department of Health has issued a two-page brochure, "What Is Dry Ice?".

Keeping Your Food During a Power Failure with Dry Ice

Whether it's a summer windstorm or winter ice storm, what do you do with a freezer full of food when the power fails?  Continental Carbonic Products, Inc. has gathered information on using dry ice to keep your food during a power failure.

Home Super Freeze "Canning" Using Dry Ice

Do you want to preserve berries, green beans and peas from your own garden, without heat?
Try dry ice freezing. It is faster, easier, and safer than hot canning, or ordinary freezing. 

Keep Food Safe Using Dry Ice During A Power Outage

During a temporary or long-term power outage, dry ice may be your best answer to keeping your frozen and refrigerated foods safe. Learn how to use dry ice to save your food.