I want to try but I don't know what would happen if I pour the dry ice in my uncle's lab.
Will good things happen?
2007-06-29 10:19:11 · 9 answers · asked by Montreal my city 1 in Health ➔ General Health Care ➔ First Aid
Will it heal the cuts on my arm?
2007-06-29 10:19:37 · update #1
FROSTBITE dummy! Are you looking to have to get a skin graft?! Good luck with that!
2007-06-29 10:40:39 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
DRY ICE BURNS LIKE FIRE!!!!
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.
2007-06-29 17:26:29 · answer #2 · answered by Melanie 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
If you fiddle around in your uncles' lab you owe to know what those things do or get out of there. It will burn you pretty bad!
It is liquid nitrogen snow. Wash the burn and go to the doctors immediately, and if you need to be in the lab do not touch things without knowledge or your unckle should tie you on a chair if you can't help yourself, before he leaves you unattendant.
2007-06-29 18:55:50 · answer #3 · answered by Mo_Az7>Vs/ 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You can't pour dry ice and make sure you or no one else touches it because it can burn skin really bad!
2007-06-29 17:26:21 · answer #4 · answered by Oh, it's like that? 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Go for it! If you are able to actually "pour" the dry ice it's actually in a vapor state and you'll be okay.
2007-06-29 17:56:49 · answer #5 · answered by James C 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
No really just don't try this at all.
Dry ice is extremely cold
-109.3oF it will burn your skin.
2007-06-29 17:28:15 · answer #6 · answered by taylrsifwtfan#11 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
You will burn and disfigure yourself.
2007-06-29 17:26:40 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
dont do it it will burn like hell
2007-07-07 06:40:24 · answer #8 · answered by Princess_Rathina 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Can you say BURN.
2007-07-07 06:32:26 · answer #9 · answered by Charla C 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋