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Dry ice
Dry ice noun - Solidified carbon dioxide; dry ice sublimates at -78.5 C and is used mainly as a refrigerant.
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Dropping a chunk of dry ice into a beaker of water will cause it to appear to boil and give off a ghostly white fog; this isn't all that useful (sometimes small pellets of dry ice are used this way in order to exclude air from a container briefly), but it is a staple of the Mad Scientist Laboratory.
Source: Technicolor Science
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