Dry Ice News Archive

Dry Ice Can Shut Off Water Pipe For Repairs

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

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

Dry Ice Helps Flood Cleanup

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

Clean Brick with Dry Ice Blasting

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...

Catch Mosquitos with Dry Ice

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

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

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...

Branding livestock with dry ice

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 article

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.

Cloud Seeding with Dry Ice

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.

Bubbles In The Oil

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 proved reserves of 21.9 billion barrels. Learn more about how Liquid Carbon Dioxide plays a role in this new technology.

New York Dry Ice

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?".

Singing Spoon dry ice experiment

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.

Create Spooky Halloween Special Effects with Dry Ice

It wouldn't be Halloween without spooky fog created by dry ice! Learn how to create special Halloween effects with dry ice with these simple directions.

Save and Enjoy Fish Filets with Flash Freezing

Going fishing and expect to come home with a large quantity of fish or fish filets?
Flash freeze fresh fish with dry ice!

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 by your best answer to keep your frozen and refrigerated foods safe. Learn how to use dry ice to save your food.