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Dry ice (CO2) in a tin can urinal? Now that IS funny!
Why?
Dry ice (CO2) in a tin can urinal? Now that IS funny!
Why?
Dry ice is around -150°F. It turns directly from a solid to a gas when warmed. Urine is 98.6°F, immediately creating huge quantities of gas.
Get some dry ice. Take half a pound and hammer it into pieces that will go into a 2 liter bottle (take care in handling as it will quickly give you frostbite). Add a cup of water, simply to speed up conversion to gas. Put the cap on tightly and get away from it. Do not go near it, because it will explode, usually in a minute or so. The more it stretches the plastic, the bigger the boom. We tossed one into a beat-up kitchen trash can. It ripped it up pretty bad, the cap and part of the bottle (so hard you couldn't bend it) went over a three-story building and 45' away.
LOX needs handled with care. One day, they blacktopped a parking lot, covering everything from dirt to gravel to cement. When they finished, a guy pulled up with LOX.
He asked if they remembered one area that was concrete, then told them they'd have to remove the blacktop from that area. Seems that when LOX hits blacktop, it catches fire on contact, no source of ignition needed.



















