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Mystery #3Tier 2โ€“3states / gases

Why does dry ice make fog?

Drop a lump of "dry ice" into water and it erupts with thick white fog, like a witch's cauldron โ€” yet it never melts into a puddle the way normal ice does. What is dry ice, and where is all that fog coming from?

Dry ice releasing thick white fog
Photo: Tony Webster ยท CC BY 2.0 ยท via Wikimedia Commons

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