Does Dry Ice Dissolve in Water?

[prat]

is solid carbon dioxide(dry ice) soluble in water

 

[Yanick]

Everything is soluble in everything, the question becomes how soluble? Solubility of carbon dioxide depends on temperature (dry ice is cold), partial pressure of CO₂ in the air above, pH, metal impurities etc.

You may want to do some googling or literature searches. Dissolved carbon dioxide is found as carbonic acid/carbonates in water which are not the most soluble compounds but do dissolve to an extent varying with factors such as those stated above.

 

[Ygggdrasil]

Carbon dioxide is soluble in water. Although much of the carbon dioxide will escape as a gas when you put dry ice into water, some of the carbon dioxide will dissolve in the water and make the water carbonated.

 

[MrSid]

If your intention is to make sparkling water to drink, don't do it as the Dry Ice is generally contaminated by compressor oils at a few ppm. Food grade CO2 for making sodas is specially refined to be palatable.

Homebrewers have used a technique for carbonation at bottling that uses an addition of corn sugar calculated to add 1-2 volumes of CO2 to the stillbeer. More advanced brewers use fresh sterile wort calculated to do the same thing in a process called krausening. Popped bottles are a sign that some microbial contamination creates enzymatically excess fermentable sugars from the unfermented carbohydrates left in the "still" beer.
Obviously this is not controllable to make a sweet soda,and small amounts of alcohol are the byproduct of the carbonation.

 

[LudusRex]

No, dry ice is not soluble in water. Solubility refers to the ability of a substance to dissolve in a liquid, and dry ice does not dissolve in water. Instead, it undergoes a process called sublimation, where it changes directly from a solid to a gas without passing through a liquid phase. This is why dry ice appears to "disappear" when placed in water, as it is rapidly converting into carbon dioxide gas.