If I melt dry ice and then swim in it, will I not get wet?

Answer 1

Yes, but it will be a dry-type of wet.

Answer 2

Just to be a non conformist I am going to say you will get wet..

Not from the dry Ice but from the resulting condensate puddle.

Just like a coke sweats and forms condesation when you take it our of the frig on a warm humid day. The cold temp of dry ice is well below the dew point. As the dry ice turns back into a gas there will be a water frost layer form on the dry ice. This will eventually melt (condensate) and form a puddle by which you can get wet.

Answer 3

Or, How will you swim in a gas?
Dry ice is CO2. It is denser than ice. If you melt dry ice such that the CO2 stays in one place (e.g., the bottom of a big box), you will have no air to breathe as you try to swim in gas.

However, in your sentence, it is clear that "it" has to stand for dry ice (which is still a solid -- before it melts), so the first answer is correct: how will you swim in a solid?

Answer 4

How are you going to swim in a solid?

edit: Dry ice is called dry ice because naturally it goes straight from solid to gas, however there is a process to make it a liquid having something to do with pressurizing it that I of course do not completely understand being a high schooler :), and if you did swim in this Liquid CO2, yes, you would get wet just like swimming in liquid anything else.

Answer 5

Since dry ice is made from carbon dioxide instead of water, you would only get CO2 gas when it melts. If you could swim in that, you wouldn't get wet - and if you CAN, I want to come watch!!!

Answer 6

Dry ice (solid carbon dioxide) does not undergo liquid state naturally as it sublimes to form vapour when it "melts". Therefore, you will not get wet.

On the other hand, if you live in a humid environment and get exposed to dry ice when it "melts", the water vapour will condense into water droplets and you might get wet.

Answer 7

You can't swim in it. Dry ice is solid carbon dioxide which cannot exist as a liquid at normal air pressure. It goes directly from the solid state to a gaseous state, a process called sublimation.

Answer 8

CO2 (the solid) sublimates directly to a gas at temperatures around -78 C, as long as the pressure approximates atmospheric. To remain a solid, the pressure has to be close to 5.1 atmospheres ... which is enough to make most people black out.

The melting point for the solid is at -57 C ... assuming the pressure is kept high enough to prevent sublimation.

So you ~might~ get wet, but you'd drop your body core temperature fast enough to not know it ever happened ... and you'd probably not wake up from the experience.

Answer 9

No,you will not get wet,dry ice complies to a process called sublimation,meaning it will skip the phase of melting,and will turn to gas,because it is made out of Carbon,and carbon is a gas,not a liquid,certain elements can freeze,like Carbon,or solidify,other elements,it has to reach absolute zero,such as mercury,a liquid metal.

Answer 10

Dry ice doesn't melt it evaporates!!!! So you can't get wet, but you can get burned it you touch it.

Answer 11

BRRR! You cannot swim in a medium that cannot exist at STP. Liquid carbon dioxide can only exist under extreme pressure or at very low temperatures. Either way, it's gonna be WAY too cold to swim in!