Can You Cast Dry Ice in Epoxy Resin ?

one size fits all ah so as you just saw when I did the ice in

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video a lot of you suggested that I should try dry ice so I did a little research and found something now finding dry ice around here can be a bit difficult, you can't just go to your local supermarket and buy it, you have to go to a special ice factory that makes it, but once you find it very fun to play, now we all know what happens when we dry out. ice in water and we're about to find out what happens when I drop it into

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, but before we do that I think there are other experiments we can try, so I rated the kitchen and this is what I found: I have some white. vinegar a little milk mayonnaise cooking oil a little cola a little yogurt and of course I wouldn't be Australian if I didn't have vegemite now there's another experiment I wanted to try this one is one hundred percent alcohol and when you drop it Dry ice in alcohol , it gets very cold.

Once you have that super cooled liquid, you can put things in it like these rubber snakes and then once they've cooled down, you can smash them into a thousand pieces. Now we'll do that experiment a little bit. Later, but for now let's start with the milk. If I had to guess, I would say that this milk will probably behave the same way as water. Wow, I didn't expect that gas to be trapped inside these bubbles. So as soon as we blow them up, all the gas will come out well, that made a bit of a mess.

I'm glad I started with milk, although it's time for round two, this time I'll use a silicone mat. Let's try the cola, I wonder if the carbonation in the water will have any additional effect so you can see that all that gas is trapped in the bubbles only temporarily and still coming out like a steam train, well it turned out more or less as expected. so let's do the next one, now white vinegar, I really have no idea what to expect with this one, what do you guys think? Same as cola water, looks very similar to water, maybe a little more violent then I think I'll try mayonnaise, not quite sure how well that will work.

I think I'll have to force it there. Well, actually not that long ago. Add a little more on top. I wonder if we're just building up gas and everything. All of a sudden this thing will just explode and then I'll be covered in mayonnaise. I don't want to be covered in mayonnaise. I could go back. Well, it's been five minutes and we got nothing. Well, that was pretty uneventful and don't worry. I'm not going to throw this away, I'll save it for later. I think we're going to have the same reaction with yogurt, so let's eliminate it quickly.

It smells like passion fruit, mango and passion fruit. Oh, a little better reaction, nothing crazy though. We're down to our last two vegemite and cooking oil, since we've had two boring ones, I think we should use the cooking oil because I think the vegemite is going to be a flop, okay guys what's your prediction for this dragon ? It looks more like water or more like milk. Wow, we're not getting a ton of bubbles either, but we can't see the actual gas like smoke. Now there is a good chance that this oil will get very cold, let's take a look. and look how cold it is, we're minus seven minus eight degrees centigrade or thirty degrees fahrenheit, that's pretty cold, now it's time to eat the last of our food, the vegemite now, like I said before, I think this is going to happen for a while. little without incident, but hey you.

I never know, let me know in the comments if you've tried Vegemite and let me know if you liked it, it's an acquired taste. I personally absolutely hate it, but Nicole loves it. I think what she could do here is drop the ice through the bottom and then fold the vegemite over the top. Okay, I've made a nice seal around the back. Hopefully, we can build up some pressure and get a little pop. Now I think all we are doing is getting very cold. vegemite, so those last few experiments weren't very exciting at all, so I think it's time we tried chilling some alcohol now.

If any of you are going to try to chill a liquid, be very careful because even a splash of this can give you a little freeze, so now that the alcohol is in, we'll add the dry ice. Once we add the dry ice, we'll wait for all the bubbles to go away and then we'll know the liquid is super chilled once it is. Ready, we'll drop the rubber snake and see if we can freeze it. A few minutes have passed. Now let's check the temperature - 53 degrees Celsius - 64 Fahrenheit. Now we're supercooling, so now you can see all the bubbles. starting to calm down and now it's time to drop our rubber snake, so we'll leave it there until it freezes, okay, I think we're tough enough now, let's give it a whack, how cool was that, it was definitely worth the worth the wait.

Now is the time we have all been waiting for dry ice and

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resin, just like in the first ice experiment, we will pour some blue alcohol ink and then wait for it to heat up. I'll also transfer it to this molding. container so we can see the resin experiment better. I'll be swapping my face shield for my respirator which is starting to get hot now. It shouldn't be long while we wait for the resin to heat up. I wanted to take it. a second and thank you all for being here. I really appreciate your support and I also wanted to give you a sneak peek of next week's build video.

I have the Beatles' yellow submarine. Now it is the first time you visit my channel and believe. That's something you might be interested in, please consider subscribing. I post new videos every week. Now let's get back to the action, okay, it's time, let's do it, just enter it. Oh, check it straight to the end and we're bubbling. Now it's a race to see if the resin above hardens and holds those bubbles. Look at the smoke effect we're getting here. Well, I think I'll stay away in case something happens, so it was a lot of fun. To look at the way the resin was heated and then cured at the top, which slowed down the bubbles, we ended up with a small hole at the top that allows gas to escape, but I think what we need to do is grow more, we are going to use more resin and more ice.

I'm going to try to wait as long as I can this time to see if we can get that resin to seal. There is a fine line that is definitely getting closer. Okay, I'll go for it. I'm going to take a step back, well, we didn't get a bang, which, to be honest, I'm very happy with. I think we'll let this cool, get it out there and take a closer look at our

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ings now. it got cold so let's take them out and take a closer look so here's the first one we made and it turned out pretty good.

I thought it was going to break through the bottom, but it didn't. All we have was a small hole at the top here if you flip it over it looks like a tornado and here is the second one this one looks amazing these voids here almost look like the gallery is inside an anthill and once again we didn't get through the bottom, but we have a couple of holes in the top now that could be an advantage for us because I'm thinking with this one it could be cool to put it in the vacuum chamber, put a different colored resin and try to suck it into all those voids , What do you think?

You think I should do it right. That's it for this week's episode. I hope you enjoyed it thanks for watching and I'll see you next time.