DRY ICE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does dry ice mean? 

• DRY ICE (noun)
  The noun DRY ICE has 1 sense:

1. solidified carbon dioxide; dry ice sublimates at -78.5 C and is used mainly as a refrigerant

  Familiarity information: DRY ICE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DRY ICE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Solidified carbon dioxide; dry ice sublimates at -78.5 C and is used mainly as a refrigerant

Classified under:

Nouns denoting substances

Hypernyms ("dry ice" is a kind of...):

solid (matter that is solid at room temperature and pressure)

 Context examples 

It has been linked to active processes on Mars such as carbon dioxide gas geysers and lines on sand dunes plowed by blocks of dry ice.

(NASA spacecraft observes further evidence of dry ice gullies on Mars, NASA)

Elsewhere, the surface appears to be etched by fields of small pits that may have formed by a process called sublimation, in which ice turns directly from solid to gas, just as dry ice does on Earth.

(New Horizons Discovers Frozen Plains in the Heart of Pluto’s ‘Heart’, NASA)

Frozen carbon dioxide, commonly called dry ice, does not exist naturally on Earth, but is plentiful on Mars.

(NASA spacecraft observes further evidence of dry ice gullies on Mars, NASA)