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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


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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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