2006-10-08 18:58:36 · 8 answers · asked by maggie 1 in Home & Garden ➔ Cleaning & Laundry
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Dry ice (frozen carbon dioxide) is cold: -109 degrees Fahrenheit (-78 degrees Celsius). That's 109 degrees colder than most freezers, 141 degrees colder than water's freezing point, and almost as cold as Earth's coldest temperature: -129º F (89.4º C) recorded in Antarctica.
When you hold dry ice in your bare hand, you freeze the tissues of your skin: progressively inward. A mere two-second exposure starts the process.
The skin contains different sensors for cold and heat, says Michel B. Ducharme, head of the human protection and performance group with Defence R&D Canada. The sensors discriminate between cold and heat only within certain bounds. Touching dry ice overwhelms the discriminatory sensors and triggers pain. Freezing is a paramount threat to the body. You feel the pain as a burning sensation.
Frostbite, like heat burns, can be a nasty injury. In fact, safety warnings liken the two injuries: "May cause severe frostbite or burns," says one about dry ice. Even mild frostbite causes cells to freeze, crystallize, rupture, and die. In cases of severe frostbite, this can involve subcutaneous tissues, muscle, tendon, and bone.
Always handle dry ice wearing protective cloth or leather gloves. An oven mitt or towel will do.
2006-10-08 19:33:05 · answer #1 · answered by javajoe 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
it damages the skin like heat does.
excessive sub-zero temperatures kill the cells. the burns arent as disfigured as heat burns but the damage is equal in effect.
the body can only survive in certain temperatures, too much up or down will harm it. contact damage is very bad. of course, this isnt dry ice here, even though it hurts, but its the start of damage. things like L.P.G can strip the skin from your bone if fired point blank at your skin, thats why there are so many safe guards at fueling depots.
2006-10-09 02:08:14 · answer #2 · answered by SAINT G 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
dry ice burns because it is so cold that it is removing all the
warmth in your skin and replacing it with the burning
2006-10-10 19:51:26 · answer #3 · answered by smater than yall 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Dry ice is Carbon dioxide in the solid state and its formula is CO2.
The reason why it "burns" is, it is extremely cold. The freezing point of CO2 is -109.3°F or -78.5°C.
2006-10-09 09:59:27 · answer #4 · answered by Mexican Pedro 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Because it is extremely cold. Extreme cold and high heat can both burn you.Frostbite on your fingers, toes , etc. is caused by very cold wether. It actually is burning your skin.
2006-10-09 05:10:01 · answer #5 · answered by Leslie S 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
it sure does, my cousin threw me in a pale of dry ice and stepped on my stomach...yeahhh...
i think its cuz it's so cold
2006-10-09 02:00:19 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
it doesn't actually "burn", it freezes whatever it touches. freezing this quickly is really painful, and people refer to it as "freezer burn".
2006-10-09 02:01:31 · answer #7 · answered by sharrron 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Because it is so cold.
2006-10-09 02:01:16 · answer #8 · answered by janelle p 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋