What is a Dry Ice Bomb?
Dry Ice Bomb exploding in Water.A dry ice bomb is a simple bomb-like device. While the simplicity and ease of construction, high bursting pressure, and sound make the dry ice bomb attractive for recreational purposes, they can be unpredictable and dangerous. As the frozen dry ice carbon dioxide warms inside a bottle, it sublimates to a gas. In the process of becoming a gas the CO2 creates the small explosion that leads to the name dry ice “bomb”. The pressure inside the bottle increases as the quantity of gas increases with limited room to expand. Bombs will typically rupture within 30 seconds to 30 minutes, dependent largely on the temperature of the air outside the bottle.[1] A dry ice bomb may develop a frost on the bottle exterior prior to explosion.[1] After explosion, a dry ice bomb will appear to have shattered, with the overall shape of the device intact.[1] Dry ice bombs are most commonly used on their own to simply make a blast, and the timing of the blast is fairly unpredict
