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What Does Dry Ice Do In a Frozen Fish Pond?


hey what’s up guys we’re back today with
another dry ice experiment dry ice is
extremely cold but it never gets old
you’ve seen people throwing this stuff
in their swimming pool where it makes a
really cool effect and you might
remember last summer I went to the hot
springs and dumped in a hundred pounds
of this stuff to see how it would react
with hot water
but today the ground is frozen over my
fish pond has a thin layer of ice so I
wanted to see what would happen if we
tried throwing dry ice into a frozen
fish pond let’s check it out
but wait there’s more we’re going to
throw this bucket of dry ice into our
fish pond and don’t worry there aren’t
any fish in there now this just froze
over last night so the layer of ice
isn’t that thick that means if we throw
the dry it’s hard enough we might be
able to get it to penetrate straight
through down into the water is the
driest going to crack through or is it
just going to scuttle around on the top
this will be interesting to see let’s
see what happens if we just throw one
chunk of dry ice in there awesome but
it’s gonna take a little bit more to get
it through and look how wow look at what
it’s doing to the underneath the ice
here it’s actually forming carbon
dioxide gas right underneath the ice
that was unexpected but I guess it makes
sense let’s throw another piece down
there right beside it and see if we get
the same effect now we need to go all
the way through the ice there we go
oh this is actually gonna be really cool
here goes another one right over here
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see once the dryest is under there it
releases carbon dioxide but the carbon
dioxide gets trapped under the layer of
ice and exposes it that’s cool look
closely what happens here there’s an air
bubble and then the carbon dioxide
infuses into it and then it rushes out
and disappears what a sweet effect
what’s cool about that gas is it’s still
got that misty foggy vapor let’s just go
ahead and do the whole bucket wow that
is cool
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I think the coolest thing about this is
just the setting with everything frozen
over it kind of looks like one of those
foggy English mornings with the foggy
vapor rolling around definitely gives it
a different feel than we had at the Hot
Springs
I could probably like stick my bucket on
there and a bucket just sitting there
random if you get in close here you can
see these bubbles going crazy and if you
listen carefully you know what sounds
like you’re squealing you know it’s
interesting is a lot of the ice looks
like it’s kind of disappeared now it
wasn’t a very thick layer but the
agitation from all those bubbles must be
dissipating that isolator quickly look
what’s happening to the edges of the ice
around where the driest one in it’s like
reforming a frost layer it might be
water spattering out and then refreezing
to that ice layer whatever it is that
looks pretty cool so that is super cool
and of course it makes sense that if you
trap dry ice underneath the ice
carbon dioxide is going to build up a
layer underneath fantastic experiment
I’m really glad that we tried that today
so there you have it very cool
experiment throwing dry ice into icy
water thanks so much for joining me for
this video and I’ll be looking for you
in the next one talk to you then ice
night ciao
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