Your Pool Party Hasn't Begun Until You Add 30 Pounds Of Dry Ice Like This Guy
By
Sughra Hafeez in
Science and Technology
On 28th May 2016
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#1 YouTube user CrazyRussianHacker posted a video showing him adding 30 pounds (13.5 kilograms) of dry ice to a swimming pool full of water.
#2 Add dry ice to water, and dense white fog occurs, which makes for a rather spooky visual effect.
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#3 Wearing gloves to protect his hands, he crushes blocks of dry ice bought from the grocery store in a cooler.
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#4 Then he pours it into his swimming pool
to show off the eerie white fog produced when the dry ice hits the water and sublimates, or turns from a solid to a gas.
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#5 The best part isn't the dry ice sublimating in the swimming pool;
it's the constant excited commentary from CrazyRussianHacker, who can't help but geek out over his experiment.
#6 CrazyRussianHacker says:
"It looks like a volcano underwater,I think this is definitely a success. So awesome!"
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#7 Considering that CrazyRussianHacker's video has already racked up over 3.4 million views, it most certainly qualifies as a viral success.
#8 This isn't the first time someone decided to drop a bunch of dry ice into a swimming pool and post the video on YouTube.
#9 YouTube user Ken Corless dumped 60 pounds of dry ice into a swimming pool and posted the video in 2007.
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#10 Corless did the experiment again in 2011, this time using 200 pounds of dry ice.
Watch the video here: