Carbon Dioxide -- Greenhouse Gas
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Carbon Dioxide - Keeping Our Planet GREEN! Greenhouse Gas!
Carbon dioxide--CO2--makes up the fizz in your soda. In fact, if you mix carbon dioxide with dihydrogen monoxide, you get "club soda"! It's what animals breath out as a result of their metabolism. It's one of the main results when any type of carbon-based "fuel" is burned. It's the resulting compound when elemental carbon is completely oxidized. It's used by plants in the photosynthesis process. Duh... that's why it's called a "greenhouse gas"--without carbon dioxide, Earth would have no plants--at least none that are recognizable from our point of view.
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Carbon Dioxide or "Dry Ice"--it's the Same Stuff!
When you go to the Supermarket to get some "dry ice" for your camping or fishing trip (to keep the food in your cooler staying cool for the duration of the trip), you are getting chunks of solid carbon dioxide.
When I was a science teacher, I drove to the hardware store in the morning to get a chunk of "dry ice" for an experiment I planned to demonstrate to the kids that day. I wasn't thinking and, instead of using an "ice chest" or "cooler" to transport the stuff, I used a large Tupperware sealable ("with the burp") salad bowl with lid. After sealing the "dry ice" in the container, I put the container on the back seat of my car and started to drive down the road about 3 miles to my school and my classroom.
I had only gotten about a mile down the road and what sounded like an explosion from the back of my car nearly made me careen off the road. I thought I had blown a tire--so I pulled over to the shoulder. Got out of the car and took a walk around the car to check for damage. All the tires were fine. But when I looked into the back of my car, the "smoke" or "fog" was filling the back of my car. The expanding gas from the dry-ice had blown the top off the tupperware. Definitely a good dramatic display for my students.
When I got to the science teacher's office, I resealed the Tupperware container tightly and checked the time it took for the lid to blow off. Then I took the container to my classroom for the day's demonstrations.
It was a blast to watch the kids' eyes grow wide as they watched the ballooning lid of the container while I explained how carbon dioxide is a substance that "Sublimates"--by going from solid to gaseous state without going through the liquid state. At about the time I finished the explanation, the lid would blow off the Tupperware container with a huge boom (my classroom had an uninsulated corrugated tin roof--which sort of amplified the blast). It was fun watching the kids jump out of their chairs in surprise. The lesson had some of the most impact of all of my chemistry lessons when I was teaching--the kids remembered the lesson!
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Some of us might remember this from science class....
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MaxReily
Apr 17, 2011 @ 10:28 pm | delete
- Very interesting lens. And entertaining as well--with your anecdote about the tupperware container. Your lenses are always informative.
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pmolinero
Oct 29, 2010 @ 4:57 am | delete
- Luckily nothng happend o you as the container exploded on your backseat. So it turns out a funny story now, but it could have been different.
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JaguarJulie Jun 17, 2009 @ 4:31 pm | delete
- That tupperware story sounds like something which might likely have happened to my science teacher -- former -- of a hubby! I'll need to run this by him and let you know what he says. Glad you didn't have an accident!
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The Carbon Dioxide Syndrome
Amazon Price: $49.98 (as of 05/30/2012)
This book describes why breathing properly and eliminating carbon dioxide from your system can help alleviate problems with allergies, asthma, and other breathing problems. (Of course, with anything that has to do with your health, you should check with your doctor before you try any of the techniques suggested in this book.)
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Global Warming False Alarm: The Bad Science Behind the United Nations' Assertion that Man-made CO2 Causes Global Warming
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Yup... CO2 -- it's a "greenhouse" gas. Well, I'd rather have a "greenhouse" than an "ice-house". Climate change is something that is out of human control. One volcano like Mt. Pinatubo or Mt. St. Helen's can burb and put more CO2 in the air than all the cars in the world. In fact, the world's population of termites farts out more CO2 than all the cars in the world. Same with the world's populations of sheep and cattle. Well, yeah, humans fart, too.
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The 2009-2014 World Outlook for Carbon Dioxide Manufacturing
Amazon Price: $795.00 (as of 05/30/2012)
This book is the compendium collection of all the information of those who manufacture carbon dioxide. (No, it's not a listing of termites, cows, sheep, and other things that fart.) This probably concerns those who make "dry ice"--solid carbon dioxide. Lots of facts here. Enjoy!
