https://www.news.com.au/technology/...s-story/edc5e34edd7d7701fb1586925c4952e2

25kg of dry ice into a pool results in 3 deaths

This is almost as big of a Darwin Award winner as the dumbass flat earth rocket daredevil.

as my Irish ancestors might say ........... eeeeeejits

I guess they never did any basic science courses

I was surprised it didn't involve Florida, but not surprised it involved Russia.

The butcher shop of the supermarket here has a cooler next to it marked dry ice. I seen people open it and take some out. Don't know what they do with it.

What really got me is the fact that the woman whose birthday was being celebrated is a pharmacist. I guess her pharmacy school never covered the effects of carbon monoxide on human respiratory systems.

I wonder if Blake Clark will revive his old "thin the herd" routine for all these idiots?

Fixed it for you ; )

We are going to the store here soon. I will take a photo of the dry ice cooler.

I didn't look inside. The butcher was at the meat counter helping several customers and he told me I had to wait for assistance from him or a manager to purchase dry ice
There is a website address printed on the labeling which does not open for me. http://dryiceideas.com/ also notice the instructions for fog effects: 5-10 lbs of dry ice for 4-8 gallons of hot water. That ratio of dry ice to water is higher than the 25 kg (55 lbs) of dry ice that killed those Russians party goers. There is more than 4-8 gallons of water in the swimming pool. I would imagine 5-10 lbs in 4-8 gallons will cause enough gas to quickly kill everyone in the room.



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Darwinism at its best, Good lord. Have only used Dry ice once for making a long distance in the cooler after cleaning out the freezer. Amazing how long it lasts in these
new coolers. 2 weeks out and it was all still frozen solid.

My brother and I used to make dry ice bombs when we were kids by putting the stuff in two and three liter bottles of soda, adding a quarter to half of water, then screwed on the cap and threw them. We once set one off outside the basement window of a kid next door and he jumped out of his seat when it detonated. The booms were LOUD.

My Dad used to get some dry ice when we were kids to play with. If memory serves, I even brought some to elementary school during some sort of costume contest. Its terrible what happened to these folks. It was foolish but I think we should be compassionate all the same. I also can't imagine bringing a load of it to a public swimming location, even if the pool was rented or reserved.

Carbon dioxide is unusual in that it has no liquid form. Dry ice is solid carbon dioxide. When it dropped into the water it turned to what is a chemically harmless gas. A small amount would dissolve and make a very weak solution of carbonic acid, which is harmless and could not have caused the "fake news" chemical burns.

However, carbon dioxide is about 50% denser than air, so it does not rise easily. If a large enough volume had been generated then the deaths would have been due to suffocation and not poisoning. Just 4 grams of dry ice turns into 2 litres of gas.

I recall a sad death many years ago when I lived in the UK. An overweight potholer slipped and got stuck in a crevice in the Peak District of Derbyshire. Foe days they tried to pull him out, but the carbon dioxide he was breathing out accumulated, gradually pushing the oxygen upwards until he too died of suffocation

It is untrue that it has no liquid form. It does but it cannot enter that state at atmospheric pressure. You can have liquid CO2 with the right conditions.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liquid_carbon_dioxide

I have worked on refirgeration systems using C02......there is definitely liquid in parts of those systems in order to facilitate the refrigeration cycle.

carbon dioxide is not carbon monoxide

Yes but you can survive carbon dioxide by going to a oxygenated area. You're dead no matter what if you breathe too much monoxide.

You can do the same with carbon monoxide, DaBBQ. It just takes longer for CO2 to build to a lethal concentration.