Homework Help: chem - dry ice activity

Posted by janis on Sunday, April 22, 2007 at 6:03pm.

when you add dry ice to water, it seems to boil. why is that?

You are then transfering heat from the liquid water to the solid dry ice, which sublimes gaseous CO2 into the water.

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