dry ice
noun
: solidified carbon dioxide
Example Sentences
Recent Examples on the Web Customers who have been impacted by an outage that was 10 hours or longer can be reimbursed for up to 20 pounds of dry ice or 40 pounds of regular ice. 
Angela Cordoba Perez, The Arizona Republic, 19 July 2022 That’s in part because of higher sales of beer and soda in warmer temperatures, and also because of butterfly-wing-like effects such as a need for more dry ice - which also uses CO2 in its production. Emily Heil And Tim Carman, Anchorage Daily News, 6 Aug. 2022 That’s in part because of higher sales of beer and soda in warmer temperatures, and also because of butterfly-wing-like effects such as a need for more dry ice — which also uses CO2 in its production. Tim Carman, Washington Post, 5 Aug. 2022 The second type is made of carbon dioxide, like dry ice. Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 2 July 2022 Lackner is still testing it, but in theory, that liquid carbon dioxide can be used for a range of products from dry ice to jet fuel. Zayna Syed, The Arizona Republic, 22 Apr. 2022 Guests dress in Romanian folk costumes or the latest Paris fashions, eat delicacies, and dance in dry ice fog. Michal Novotný, The Christian Science Monitor, 29 June 2022 Each vaccine tray carries approximately 975 doses that need to be put into thermal containers with about 50 pounds of dry ice pellets. NBC News, 12 Dec. 2020 Small glass vials that contain five doses each are stored in trays that are stacked like pizza boxes inside the shipper and covered with dry ice pellets. James Marson, WSJ, 9 Dec. 2020 See More
Angela Cordoba Perez, The Arizona Republic, 19 July 2022 That’s in part because of higher sales of beer and soda in warmer temperatures, and also because of butterfly-wing-like effects such as a need for more dry ice - which also uses CO2 in its production. Emily Heil And Tim Carman, Anchorage Daily News, 6 Aug. 2022 That’s in part because of higher sales of beer and soda in warmer temperatures, and also because of butterfly-wing-like effects such as a need for more dry ice — which also uses CO2 in its production. Tim Carman, Washington Post, 5 Aug. 2022 The second type is made of carbon dioxide, like dry ice. Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 2 July 2022 Lackner is still testing it, but in theory, that liquid carbon dioxide can be used for a range of products from dry ice to jet fuel. Zayna Syed, The Arizona Republic, 22 Apr. 2022 Guests dress in Romanian folk costumes or the latest Paris fashions, eat delicacies, and dance in dry ice fog. Michal Novotný, The Christian Science Monitor, 29 June 2022 Each vaccine tray carries approximately 975 doses that need to be put into thermal containers with about 50 pounds of dry ice pellets. NBC News, 12 Dec. 2020 Small glass vials that contain five doses each are stored in trays that are stacked like pizza boxes inside the shipper and covered with dry ice pellets. James Marson, WSJ, 9 Dec. 2020 See More Word History
First Known Use
1925, in the meaning defined above
Kids Definition
dry ice
noun
: solidified carbon dioxide used chiefly to keep something very cold