One day while bored in his Thermodynamics class Travis figured out how many milligrams of dry ice it would take to carbonate root beer. It turns out to be 357 milligrams of dry ice in case you were wondering, (as I'm sure you were). As Travis couldn't just leave that fact on paper he decided to see if it would work. It turns out you can! Though if Michelle asks it wasn't done in her kitchen despite what this picture may suggest.
Not knowing any local drug dealers who might have a fine set of scales with which to measure 357 milligrams of dry ice Travis fashioned one out of a paperclip, some dental floss, and a tylenol. Those are some mad McGyver skills! Anyway you just have to be quick to cap the root beer after the dry ice is in it and then let it sit and dissolve the carbon dioxide for a few days for the carbonation to take full effect.
...it also turns out that while 357 milligrams of dry ice will carbonate your bottle of sweet sugary goodness, 358 milligrams will transform it into a glass billowing dry ice bomb. Probably not the smartest idea I know. The leather gloves and safety glasses faired OK against this one that went off like the 4th of July as I was setting it down but I probably should have found something safer to wear than sandals! I don't know how I came out of this one unscathed but the explosion sent glass upwards of 25 feet.
2 comments:
Didn't you try a root beer experiment before?? And didn't it end up all over your Harry Potter closet??? Maybe next time you should just put the Tylenol in with the root beer - it has many powers to make things okay that are beyond our comprehension.
Ha, You're great Ash!
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