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What Will DRY ICE Do In Plasma?


in the past we’ve done some tests to see
what happens if we heat up dry ice in a
furnace with a blowtorch or even by
pouring molten metal onto it today we’re
going to see what happens if we throw it
in our mini arc furnace which heats up
several thousand degrees hotter than any
of those
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you tuber juicy Fox hackers wanted to
know what would happen if we put dry ice
in our mini arc furnace
well jfh we’re not sure what’s gonna
happen because dry ice is exceptionally
cold but our mini arc furnace is
exceptionally hot it gets up to several
thousand degrees in Fahrenheit or
Celsius and it’s easily hot enough to
melt glass rock or steel what we’re
going to try is fairly straightforward
we’ll see how the arc interacts with the
dry ice we’ll see if it makes it melt or
sublimate faster than normal and we’ll
see if it’s any different with solid
pieces of dry ice or powdered drafts to
start off let’s see the result with a
solid chunk of dry ice I’m also curious
to see how the arc is going to react
with the dry ice directly not the heat
from the arc but just the arc itself on
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or my first question was to see how the
arc itself interacts with our dry eyes
and unfortunately while this does create
a very powerful art it doesn’t really
have the ability to separate very far
I’m pretty sure there’s very high
amperage but very low voltage running
through this thing and as a result it
does have a hard time separating out
much all right I’m gonna make the arc
and I’m gonna point it down and
concentrate it onto that dry ice we’re
gonna see if it does anything it might
cause it to sublimate really fast or
maybe that much electricity and heat or
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cool things happening first off with
just the art concentrated on the dry ice
it did not melt because dry ice does not
like to melt unless you have it under
extreme pressure and this is just normal
atmospheric pressure however the heat of
the arc was causing it to sublimate
really quickly it started dissipating
way faster than putting in the furnace
or anything like that it wasn’t that
quick it was still just sort of a slow
disappearance but one thing we have
learned about driest in the past is that
will makes it sublimate fastest of all
is if it’s in physical contact with
something putting out a lot of heat and
these carbon rods put out a lot of heat
as we have the arc running it’s heating
up whatever is in the furnace but it’s
also heating up the rods themselves a
lot you can see that they are glowing
Orange when I take them apart from each
other even when there’s no arc traveling
between they’re still blazing orange hot
and when I put the hot rods directly in
contact with the dry ice that is when we
started seeing dissipate quickly you can
see that I’ve just carved right down
into this piece and that was just by
touching it to the rods which are still
hot and still causing it to sublimate
quickly on contact so by taking the rods
arcing them together heating them up and
then physically touching them against
the dry ice that’s when we start really
seeing the dry ice get carved away
quickly that might be the fastest I’ve
ever seen anything carved through dry
ice we’re gonna do the same thing again
but on the slightly larger block and I’m
just gonna start poking holes right down
into the surface of the dry ice with our
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those rods turned this dry ice into just
Swiss cheese like in no time flat
they just tunnel right through that that
full of holes all right we’ve got a
little metal nut here and we’re just
gonna melt that right on the dry ice
molten metal does a pretty good job of
carving right through this solid carbon
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beautiful so that was a nut now it’s
just a ball or a blob I don’t think I
can even call that ball shaped melt it
down in just a couple of seconds and
then started carving his way of this
beautiful little hole right down into
the dry ice one more thing that we want
to test is to see what happens if we
take a bunch of our dry ice crush it up
into a powder and then put that into the
arc furnace
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well it’s pretty cool things like
parking down inside it
well juicy Fox hackers know we can’t
quite melt dry ice in the arc furnace we
can get it to sublimate pretty quickly
especially if we take those blazing hot
carbon rods and touch them to the dry
ice itself I also really liked the
looker when we had the powdered dry ice
with the rods underneath that was really
cool under glow just all lit up quite a
bit look very neat does not melt but
does do some really cool stuff thank you
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