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Ajay Kumar

How long does dry ice smoke?

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Dry ice does not smoke. The vapour you see is carbon dioxide. Dry ice is essentially frozen carbon dioxide, that, at normal temperatures and atmospheric pressures, only exists as a solid or a gas, what you’re seeing is carbon dioxide sublimating directly from its solid state to its gaseous state without first becoming a liquid. The vapour is still quite cold, so it is also condensing water vapour in the air, adding to the “smokiness.”

It will continue to do this until the block of dry ice is completely gone. It will become less and less noticeable as the block gets smaller.

So to answer your question, how long will dry ice “smoke” depends on how large the block of dry ice is to begin with.

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