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Creating Dry Ice Comets in 4K
Season 1
Episode 51
A main ingredient to a comets core is dry ice. As it gets closer to the sun the ice sublimates into the vacuum of space. Putting dry ice into a shallow pool of water will produce a similar reaction.
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