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Applications

Dry ice is commonly used to package items that need to remain cold or frozen, such as ice cream, without the use of mechanical cooling. In medicine it was used to freeze warts to make removal easier,[8] although that application is now done with the use of liquid nitrogen. In the construction industry it is used to loosen floor tiles by shrinking and cracking them, as well as to freeze water in valveless pipes to allow repair. In laboratories, a slurry of dry ice in an organic solvent is a useful freezing mixture for cold chemical reactions.

Dry ice can be used to flash freeze food.[9] It is used commercially to flash freeze tuna for sushi.[10] It can also be used to flash-freeze laboratory biological samples.[11]

Dry ice can be used to carbonate beverages;[9] in fact, carbonation can even happen accidentally when dry ice is sublimating near open containers.[12]

Dry ice can also be used for making ice cream.[13]

It can be used as bait to trap mosquitoes and other insects[14]

Dry ice can be used in theatre productions in order to create the effect of dense fog. When dry ice is placed in water sublimation is accelerated, and low-sinking dense clouds of fog (smoke like) are created. This is used in fog machines, at theaters, discothèques, Haunted Houses, and nightclubs for dramatic effects. Unlike most artificial fog machines, which makes the fog rise up much like smoke, fog from dry ice crawls on the ground.

Dry Ice is also used in cloud seeding: the process of altering cloud precipitation.

Dry ice blasting

One of the largest alternative uses of dry ice is blast cleaning. Dry ice pellets are shot out of a nozzle with compressed air. This can remove residues from industrial equipment. Examples of materials being removed include ink, glue, oil, paint, mold and rubber. Dry ice blasting can replace sandblasting, steam blasting, water blasting or solvent blasting. The primary environmental residue of dry ice blasting is the sublimed CO2, thus making it a useful technique where residues from other blasting techniques are undesirable.