Sublimation Process - A Chemistry Phenomenon

[dnrongo]

sounds like my TA



[TeitiTT]

Raj from TBBT?

[gcdcman81]

This reminds me of what I learned in high school. Heat transfers to other objects, but not the other way around. The "heat" of the ice cream would transfer to the water ice around it, making it melt...dry ice is so much colder than ice cream that it would take a LOT longer for that transfer to occur...thus the ice cream would stay in it's state of yumminess much longer.

[liquidgrain]

Dry Ice is commonly used to keep Ice-Cream cold and solid by ice-cream vendors. Do you have any idea why we don't use normal ice (made of water) to keep ice cream cold?

yes actualy i do, soggy ice cream is mo fun the ice will melt, causing the ice cream to be soggy

[SimpleChemConcepts]

spot on! if ice cream vendors uses normal ice (water in solid state), once the ice melt, the ice cream will become very messy and "soggy". =)