Make Dry Ice at Home with a Fire Extinguisher and a Pillowcase

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Make Dry Ice at Home with a Fire Extinguisher and a Pillowcase

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YouTuber Grant Thompson, The King of Random, recently posted this video on how to make your own batch of dry ice at home. The process requires a food-safe CO2 fire extinguisher (which he got for free at a local fire equipment servicing company) and a pillow case. The result is the solid form of carbon dioxide, which can be used for halloween effects, science experiments, or driving an engine. [via Gizmodo]

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Matt Richardson is a San Francisco-based creative technologist and Contributing Editor at MAKE. He’s the co-author of Getting Started with Raspberry Pi and the author of Getting Started with BeagleBone.

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