carbon dioxide snow


noun
  1. solid carbon dioxide, used as a refrigerant

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How to use carbon dioxide snow in a sentence

  • As cold as a cake of carbon dioxide snow, he said, "Can you prove this, Mr. Cornell?"

    Highways in Hiding | George Oliver Smith
  • Carbon-dioxide snow may be employed in the same manner, but the results are inferior to those obtained by radium.

    Manual of Surgery | Alexis Thomson and Alexander Miles
  • Encouraging results have also been obtained by the application of carbon dioxide snow.

    Manual of Surgery | Alexis Thomson and Alexander Miles
  • Depressions in the carbon-dioxide snow where the hundred-foot pad-feet of ships' landing-legs had pressed down.

    Space Viking | Henry Beam Piper