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Johnny Pneumatic · 25th March 2004, 10:28 AM

If someone swallowed a Dry Icecube what would happen?
going to die; right?

geni · 25th March 2004, 10:46 AM

As long as they really swollow and don't just hold it in thier mouth the results are not going to be good. Probabaly a combiantion of burns to the throat and gut ruptures caused by the solid expanding into a gas. Whether this would be fatal depends on the normal factors.

Why do you want to know?

Johnny Pneumatic · 25th March 2004, 11:15 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by geni
Why do you want to know?

Just curious; I was thinking about dry ice and came to "what if you ate it". wouldn't it also freeze the liquids in the stomach?

(S) · 25th March 2004, 11:42 AM

Probably not to any great extent, but I don't have any experience with it. If dry ice is available to you, and you want to know, /don't/ eat it, just drop a chunk of it in a small bowl of room-temperture water. My bet is the water won't freeze. Anything in your stomach should be 'just about' as easy to freeze as water, I would wager.

geni · 25th March 2004, 11:46 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by bewareofdogmas

Just curious; I was thinking about dry ice and came to "what if you ate it". wouldn't it also freeze the liquids in the stomach?

No. Water's specific heat capacity is far higher than that of CO2.

Mercutio · 25th March 2004, 11:53 AM

For our Halloween parties, we developed a drink that involved a tiny chunk of dry ice in cinnamon schnapps. None of us were stupid enough to try to swallow it in one gulp, though...

Some thoughts, however...if you have your small dry ice cube in water, there quickly will form a layer of regular ice around it...this ice, surrounded by water, of course, is at roughly 0C, 32F. That, you can swallow. The gaseous CO2 is usually shooting out through a small hole (keeping that area from freezing over), and the rate of gas-flow seems (I have not measured this, though) to depend on the size of the chunk of CO2. Perhaps it would be possible to eat a small chunk of dry ice IF it had been allowed to form this protective ice coating, and IF it was small enough not to turn you into a weather-balloon.

So...take a flask or bottle of some sort, half fill it with water at approximately body temperature. Drop your dry ice in and quickly put a balloon over the top. See how much it expands. Then, just open up a warm bottle of soda, put the balloon on it, shake it to see how much the baloon expands for this. Then you can compare eating a bit of dry ice (unknown result to me) with the effect of chugging a carbonated soda (considerably more well known), to decide whether you want to risk it.

Me...I think I'll just sip the soda and watch you do all this other stuff.

geni · 25th March 2004, 11:59 AM

Does anyone have access to copies of the new england journal of medcine from around 1998-1999?

http://www.darwinawards.com/personal...al2000-25.html

(S) · 25th March 2004, 12:00 PM

Huh.

The figure I found for dry ice's change is 6000 cal / mol, a mole being about 40 grams.

I've found two figures for latent heat of fusion of water, 80 cal / gram and ~100k cal. If the second figure is closer to correct, than the 'no, it wouldn't freeze' is correct.
If the first figure is correct, then dry ice would freeze an amount of water that is roughly the same amount of water by mass.

In any case, remember that that 40 grams of dry ice will try to expand to, what, 22 liters in volume?

[EDIT:]
Just realized that if the first figure is supposed to be 80 BIG Calories, not LITTLE calories, they should roughly agree, and dry ice will freeze no-thing.

geni · 25th March 2004, 12:10 PM

I'ts a while since I've used the stuff but I think 40g owuld be a fair size pice of dry ice.

wjousts · 25th March 2004, 12:36 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by geni
I'ts a while since I've used the stuff but I think 40g owuld be a fair size pice of dry ice.

40g of dry ice is a huge chunk.
From by days in the chemistry lab with spare pieces of dry ice left over from putting together a dry ice/isopropanol bath, I know it takes a lot of dry ice to freeze even a realitively small quantity of room temp water. It is, as somebody else pointed, the high heat capacity of water than does it. I think the real health risk would be from burns as it comes into contact with your mouth and throat. Once it reached your stomach (assuming it's fully of liquid) it would probably sublime pretty quickly. Of course, I'd guess the gas pains will be unbearable!

Matabiri · 25th March 2004, 12:42 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by geni
Does anyone have access to copies of the new england journal of medcine from around 1998-1999?

http://www.darwinawards.com/personal...al2000-25.html

Failed to find anything promising searching on the keywords "nitrogen", "cryogenic" or "ingestion" searching back to 1981. Hum... casts a small amount of doubt on the story...

("Ingestion" threw up some interesting things. Some people'll swallow anything...)

geni · 25th March 2004, 12:49 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Matabiri

Failed to find anything promising searching on the keywords "nitrogen", "cryogenic" or "ingestion" searching back to 1981. Hum... casts a small amount of doubt on the story...

("Ingestion" threw up some interesting things. Some people'll swallow anything...)

Well it is a personal account so it's not supprising that if it isn't true.

Lisa Simpson · 25th March 2004, 12:52 PM

My brother-in-law has swallowed small chips of dry ice with no ill effect. But I've eaten his mother's cooking, so he must have a cast iron stomach.

Gestahl · 26th March 2004, 02:51 PM

Nothing ill will happen... here's why...

Your body has a high capacity for heat... its mostly water. Added to this the lining in your stomach, mouth, etc. are mostly water. If you swallow fast and it is small, it will not have time to freeze anything on the way down, and your linings and high body temperature will take effect. try cupping your hand, and putting a small amount of water in it, then putting some dry ice. You can leave it in there for several seconds. You can even put the dry ice directly on the skin for several seconds (be careful again). The real difference is if there is enough liquid in your stomach to negate the freezing effectonce the chunk arrives. I do not know the average amount of liquid in an empty stomach.

As proof, all I have is the anecdote that I have eaten a banana that was frozen in liquid N02 for several minutes, then smashed with a hammer (it had only a few second to warm up). I placed a piece in my mouth, bit into pieces, then swallowed. Painful? Slightly, almost as bad as touching a hot lighter. Damaging, not in the least.

*However*, I would not recommend experimentation on any larger a scale than a piece of dry ice about the size of half a small pebble, and try in your mouth for effect. If you move it around constantly, you should have no problem. YMMV, and IANAC.

Lisa Simpson · 26th March 2004, 02:58 PM

That reminds me...I ate a piece of graham cracker that had been dipped in liquid nitrogen back in high school on Ooh Aah Day. It's been so long I forgot.

Pyrrho · 26th March 2004, 05:10 PM

I'd like to remind the children in the audience, and adults, not to try eating dry ice, or any other substance not intended for human consumption.

Mercutio · 26th March 2004, 05:34 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Pyrrho
I'd like to remind the children in the audience, and adults, not to try eating dry ice, or any other substance not intended for human consumption.

Aw, dad...!!!!

Um...yeah, he's right.

Virgil · 26th March 2004, 05:41 PM

I've worked with dry ice many times in my life and I would add the following.

if you swallowed dry ice. it would go down into the tummy. it may burn the soft tissue on the way down or get stuck by freezing in your throat and really burn.

in your tummy it would float around and become coated with a layer of wet ice except for a small hole spraying the CO2 into your stomach. your tummy would get cold but i don't think it would do damage unless it froze to the wall.

I'm not an MD but I guess the pressure build up would be faster than the pressure release so I guess the tummy could explode or rupture. that is if you don't blech often enough you would burst.

I would listen to uncle Pyrrho and never, never eat dry ice.

Virgil

epepke · 26th March 2004, 10:25 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by bewareofdogmas
If someone swallowed a Dry Icecube what would happen?
going to die; right?

It's possible to swallow a small amout of dry ice mixed with water, or some more appropriate fluid, such as ethanol.

I've done it.

It makes you belch a fair amount.

wipeout · 27th March 2004, 12:34 PM

Excessive cold, heat or choking in your throat can stimulate the vagal nerve between your brain and your heart and cause bradycardia and slowing the heart until you pass out, or temporary atrial fibrilation, a usually harmless fluttering of the upper part of the heart that might require a trip to hospital to fix it.

An example of the former was of course President George W. Bush and his pretzel incident.

If you do swallow dry ice, keep upright so it goes down quickly. I wouldn't recommend it, though.

marting · 27th March 2004, 05:09 PM

Quote:

I've found two figures for latent heat of fusion of water, 80 cal / gram and ~100k cal. If the second figure is closer to correct, than the 'no, it wouldn't freeze' is correct.

The Heat of Fusion for H20 is 80calories/gram.
The Specific Heat of steam and ice are both about .5cal/gm.

Thus, to make Ice Tea quickly, brew at 2x concentration then toss in an equal weight of ice straight from the freezer. Stir until dissolved then enjoy. Forget the dry ice.

-Marty

Eos of the Eons · 27th March 2004, 06:07 PM

I had a doc use dry ice on a wart once. It died...well the skin blistered and the wart looked pretty burned up. It fell off.

icky

phildonnia · 29th March 2004, 08:48 AM

At the geek parties I've been to, it was always assumed that death would come from aspyxiation as gaseous CO2 came flowing up the esophagus. For those who dared to put dry ice in their mouths, the emergency plan was to bend over and maybe the pressure would force the particle out.

Something that I did try that I should warn everyone about: do not place water ice that's been cooled with dry ice into your mouth.

Frostbite · 29th March 2004, 10:17 AM

I think in the stomach the dry ice cube would surround itself with a layer of frozen stomach acids and shoot out gaseous nitrogen. I think it would cause ferocious belching for a while until it completely sublimated. My only question is what kind of damage it would cause to the oesephagus on its way down. I think it takes 30 seconds to reach the stomach so I bet it'd have the time to burn you.

Back in the party days we'd put chunks of dry ice in a bowl of water and have us some smoke, and eventually the chunk would surround itself with ice.

Eric Haas · 11th April 2004, 05:48 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by (S)
If dry ice is available to you, and you want to know, /don't/ eat it, just drop a chunk of it in a small bowl of room-temperture water. My bet is the water won't freeze.

Having done this myself, I can tell you that basically, a thin layer of water ice forms around the dry ice. Most of the water will not freeze. Of course, results may be different depending on the relative amounts of water and dry ice.

25th March 2004, 10:28 AM	#1
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25th March 2004, 11:15 AM	#3
Johnny Pneumatic Corpuscle Clay Join Date: Oct 2003 Posts: 2,089	Quote: Originally posted by geni Why do you want to know? Just curious; I was thinking about dry ice and came to "what if you ate it". wouldn't it also freeze the liquids in the stomach?
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25th March 2004, 11:42 AM	#4
(S) Scholar Join Date: Oct 2003 Posts: 100	Probably not to any great extent, but I don't have any experience with it. If dry ice is available to you, and you want to know, /don't/ eat it, just drop a chunk of it in a small bowl of room-temperture water. My bet is the water won't freeze. Anything in your stomach should be 'just about' as easy to freeze as water, I would wager.
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25th March 2004, 11:53 AM	#6
Mercutio Shakespeare's Sock Puppet Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: Live Free Or Die Posts: 16,325	For our Halloween parties, we developed a drink that involved a tiny chunk of dry ice in cinnamon schnapps. None of us were stupid enough to try to swallow it in one gulp, though... Some thoughts, however...if you have your small dry ice cube in water, there quickly will form a layer of regular ice around it...this ice, surrounded by water, of course, is at roughly 0C, 32F. That, you can swallow. The gaseous CO2 is usually shooting out through a small hole (keeping that area from freezing over), and the rate of gas-flow seems (I have not measured this, though) to depend on the size of the chunk of CO2. Perhaps it would be possible to eat a small chunk of dry ice IF it had been allowed to form this protective ice coating, and IF it was small enough not to turn you into a weather-balloon. So...take a flask or bottle of some sort, half fill it with water at approximately body temperature. Drop your dry ice in and quickly put a balloon over the top. See how much it expands. Then, just open up a warm bottle of soda, put the balloon on it, shake it to see how much the baloon expands for this. Then you can compare eating a bit of dry ice (unknown result to me) with the effect of chugging a carbonated soda (considerably more well known), to decide whether you want to risk it. Me...I think I'll just sip the soda and watch you do all this other stuff.
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25th March 2004, 12:00 PM	#8
(S) Scholar Join Date: Oct 2003 Posts: 100	Huh. The figure I found for dry ice's change is 6000 cal / mol, a mole being about 40 grams. I've found two figures for latent heat of fusion of water, 80 cal / gram and ~100k cal. If the second figure is closer to correct, than the 'no, it wouldn't freeze' is correct. If the first figure is correct, then dry ice would freeze an amount of water that is roughly the same amount of water by mass. In any case, remember that that 40 grams of dry ice will try to expand to, what, 22 liters in volume? [EDIT:] Just realized that if the first figure is supposed to be 80 BIG Calories, not LITTLE calories, they should roughly agree, and dry ice will freeze no-thing.
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25th March 2004, 10:46 AM	#2
geni Anti-homeopathy illuminati member Join Date: Oct 2003 Location: UK Posts: 26,640	As long as they really swollow and don't just hold it in thier mouth the results are not going to be good. Probabaly a combiantion of burns to the throat and gut ruptures caused by the solid expanding into a gas. Whether this would be fatal depends on the normal factors. Why do you want to know?

25th March 2004, 11:46 AM	#5
geni Anti-homeopathy illuminati member Join Date: Oct 2003 Location: UK Posts: 26,640	Quote: Originally posted by bewareofdogmas Just curious; I was thinking about dry ice and came to "what if you ate it". wouldn't it also freeze the liquids in the stomach? No. Water's specific heat capacity is far higher than that of CO2.

25th March 2004, 11:59 AM	#7
geni Anti-homeopathy illuminati member Join Date: Oct 2003 Location: UK Posts: 26,640	Does anyone have access to copies of the new england journal of medcine from around 1998-1999? http://www.darwinawards.com/personal...al2000-25.html

25th March 2004, 12:10 PM	#9
geni Anti-homeopathy illuminati member Join Date: Oct 2003 Location: UK Posts: 26,640	I'ts a while since I've used the stuff but I think 40g owuld be a fair size pice of dry ice.

25th March 2004, 12:36 PM	#10
wjousts Critical Thinker Join Date: Mar 2004 Posts: 324	Quote: Originally posted by geni I'ts a while since I've used the stuff but I think 40g owuld be a fair size pice of dry ice. 40g of dry ice is a huge chunk. From by days in the chemistry lab with spare pieces of dry ice left over from putting together a dry ice/isopropanol bath, I know it takes a lot of dry ice to freeze even a realitively small quantity of room temp water. It is, as somebody else pointed, the high heat capacity of water than does it. I think the real health risk would be from burns as it comes into contact with your mouth and throat. Once it reached your stomach (assuming it's fully of liquid) it would probably sublime pretty quickly. Of course, I'd guess the gas pains will be unbearable!
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25th March 2004, 12:42 PM	#11
Matabiri Graduate Poster Join Date: Oct 2003 Posts: 1,734	Quote: Originally posted by geni Does anyone have access to copies of the new england journal of medcine from around 1998-1999? http://www.darwinawards.com/personal...al2000-25.html Failed to find anything promising searching on the keywords "nitrogen", "cryogenic" or "ingestion" searching back to 1981. Hum... casts a small amount of doubt on the story... ("Ingestion" threw up some interesting things. Some people'll swallow anything...)
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25th March 2004, 12:49 PM	#12
geni Anti-homeopathy illuminati member Join Date: Oct 2003 Location: UK Posts: 26,640	Quote: Originally posted by Matabiri Failed to find anything promising searching on the keywords "nitrogen", "cryogenic" or "ingestion" searching back to 1981. Hum... casts a small amount of doubt on the story... ("Ingestion" threw up some interesting things. Some people'll swallow anything...) Well it is a personal account so it's not supprising that if it isn't true.

25th March 2004, 12:52 PM	#13
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26th March 2004, 02:51 PM	#14
Gestahl Muse Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: Atlanta, GA Posts: 689	Tried something similar... Nothing ill will happen... here's why... Your body has a high capacity for heat... its mostly water. Added to this the lining in your stomach, mouth, etc. are mostly water. If you swallow fast and it is small, it will not have time to freeze anything on the way down, and your linings and high body temperature will take effect. try cupping your hand, and putting a small amount of water in it, then putting some dry ice. You can leave it in there for several seconds. You can even put the dry ice directly on the skin for several seconds (be careful again). The real difference is if there is enough liquid in your stomach to negate the freezing effectonce the chunk arrives. I do not know the average amount of liquid in an empty stomach. As proof, all I have is the anecdote that I have eaten a banana that was frozen in liquid N02 for several minutes, then smashed with a hammer (it had only a few second to warm up). I placed a piece in my mouth, bit into pieces, then swallowed. Painful? Slightly, almost as bad as touching a hot lighter. Damaging, not in the least. However, I would not recommend experimentation on any larger a scale than a piece of dry ice about the size of half a small pebble, and try in your mouth for effect. If you move it around constantly, you should have no problem. YMMV, and IANAC.
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26th March 2004, 02:58 PM	#15
Lisa Simpson THE Lisa Simpson Administrator Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: 123 Fake Street Posts: 20,109	That reminds me...I ate a piece of graham cracker that had been dipped in liquid nitrogen back in high school on Ooh Aah Day. It's been so long I forgot.
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26th March 2004, 05:10 PM	#16
Pyrrho Man in Black Join Date: Jul 2001 Posts: 3,678	I'd like to remind the children in the audience, and adults, not to try eating dry ice, or any other substance not intended for human consumption.
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26th March 2004, 05:34 PM	#17
Mercutio Shakespeare's Sock Puppet Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: Live Free Or Die Posts: 16,325	Quote: Originally posted by Pyrrho I'd like to remind the children in the audience, and adults, not to try eating dry ice, or any other substance not intended for human consumption. Aw, dad...!!!! Um...yeah, he's right.
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26th March 2004, 05:41 PM	#18
Virgil Muse Join Date: Dec 2003 Posts: 682	I've worked with dry ice many times in my life and I would add the following. if you swallowed dry ice. it would go down into the tummy. it may burn the soft tissue on the way down or get stuck by freezing in your throat and really burn. in your tummy it would float around and become coated with a layer of wet ice except for a small hole spraying the CO2 into your stomach. your tummy would get cold but i don't think it would do damage unless it froze to the wall. I'm not an MD but I guess the pressure build up would be faster than the pressure release so I guess the tummy could explode or rupture. that is if you don't blech often enough you would burst. I would listen to uncle Pyrrho and never, never eat dry ice. Virgil
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26th March 2004, 10:25 PM	#19
epepke Philosopher Join Date: Oct 2003 Posts: 7,953	Re: Swallowing Dry Ice Quote: Originally posted by bewareofdogmas If someone swallowed a Dry Icecube what would happen? going to die; right? It's possible to swallow a small amout of dry ice mixed with water, or some more appropriate fluid, such as ethanol. I've done it. It makes you belch a fair amount.
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27th March 2004, 12:34 PM	#20
wipeout Graduate Poster Join Date: Nov 2003 Posts: 1,182	Excessive cold, heat or choking in your throat can stimulate the vagal nerve between your brain and your heart and cause bradycardia and slowing the heart until you pass out, or temporary atrial fibrilation, a usually harmless fluttering of the upper part of the heart that might require a trip to hospital to fix it. An example of the former was of course President George W. Bush and his pretzel incident. If you do swallow dry ice, keep upright so it goes down quickly. I wouldn't recommend it, though.
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27th March 2004, 05:09 PM	#21
marting Muse Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: Rancho Santa Fe Posts: 764	Quote: I've found two figures for latent heat of fusion of water, 80 cal / gram and ~100k cal. If the second figure is closer to correct, than the 'no, it wouldn't freeze' is correct. The Heat of Fusion for H20 is 80calories/gram. The Specific Heat of steam and ice are both about .5cal/gm. Thus, to make Ice Tea quickly, brew at 2x concentration then toss in an equal weight of ice straight from the freezer. Stir until dissolved then enjoy. Forget the dry ice. -Marty

27th March 2004, 06:07 PM	#22
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29th March 2004, 08:48 AM	#23
phildonnia Master Poster Join Date: Oct 2001 Location: Sac'to CA Posts: 2,339	At the geek parties I've been to, it was always assumed that death would come from aspyxiation as gaseous CO2 came flowing up the esophagus. For those who dared to put dry ice in their mouths, the emergency plan was to bend over and maybe the pressure would force the particle out. Something that I did try that I should warn everyone about: do not place water ice that's been cooled with dry ice into your mouth.

29th March 2004, 10:17 AM	#24
Frostbite Muse Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: Montreal, Qc Posts: 986	I think in the stomach the dry ice cube would surround itself with a layer of frozen stomach acids and shoot out gaseous nitrogen. I think it would cause ferocious belching for a while until it completely sublimated. My only question is what kind of damage it would cause to the oesephagus on its way down. I think it takes 30 seconds to reach the stomach so I bet it'd have the time to burn you. Back in the party days we'd put chunks of dry ice in a bowl of water and have us some smoke, and eventually the chunk would surround itself with ice.
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11th April 2004, 05:48 PM	#25
Eric Haas New Blood Join Date: Feb 2004 Posts: 8	Quote: Originally posted by (S) If dry ice is available to you, and you want to know, /don't/ eat it, just drop a chunk of it in a small bowl of room-temperture water. My bet is the water won't freeze. Having done this myself, I can tell you that basically, a thin layer of water ice forms around the dry ice. Most of the water will not freeze. Of course, results may be different depending on the relative amounts of water and dry ice.
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