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carbon dioxide snow |
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carbon dioxide snow n (Chemistry / Elements & Compounds) solid carbon dioxide, used as a refrigerant How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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Bed bugs are making a comeback nationwide and the pest control industry is seeking new technologies to combat the increasingly pesticide-resistant insects Cutting-edge technologies at both ends of the temperature spectrum include Cryonite which uses a non-toxic carbon dioxide snow to instantly freeze and kill the noxious pests and giant infrared heaters that raise the temperature in a room and bake the bugs to death The immediate purpose of cryotherapy, which in fact is the freezing treatment, is to check the spread of surface skin lesions by using liquid nitrogen, which is also known as cryogens like carbon dioxide snow. Up to a third of the huge ice caps evaporates into gas every summer and falls back in winter as carbon dioxide snow, say the team at the NASA-Goddard Space Flight Centre in Maryland, USA. |
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