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Default Supermarket chiller packs that don't freeze

Lot of it about near the poles of Mars and on other planets and moons
further out of course.


Perhaps its antifreeze? Grin.
Brian

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On 22/05/2021 19:12, Chris Bacon wrote:
On 22/05/2021 18:59, charles wrote:
In article ,
Pamela wrote:
Amazon/Morrison's deliver frozen food with ice packs containing some
fluid which doesn't stay frozen in my freezer.

It is probably "Dry Ice". Frozen Carbon Dioxide. Your freeze°r would
need
to beta -78°C to keep it frozen ;-)


It isn't. Carbon dioxide solid sublimates, there is no liquid phase at
normal temperature and pressure.


I guess that's why it's called "dry ice".

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