It freeze-burns your skin if you touch it.
So on the inside, it must be a bit ouchy.
( Je suis un vagabond is an unfunny, up your own arse middle class knob, Mon 13 Aug 2012, 11:30, 2 replies)

Once it's in a drink it can't stay solid for very long at all, surely?
I don't know, it's almost a decade since I did any chemistry related stuff.
( BraynDedd Natasha Kaplinsky's labia majora, Mon 13 Aug 2012, 11:32, closed)

Not very long at all, no, but it depends on the size of the piece.
If you managed to get one into your throat, or further, you would be looking at some serious convalescing.
( Je suis un vagabond is an unfunny, up your own arse middle class knob, Mon 13 Aug 2012, 11:33, closed)

I have learned something today.

( BraynDedd Natasha Kaplinsky's labia majora, Mon 13 Aug 2012, 12:19, closed)

It's suprisingly resilient.
it has a high latent heat of sublimation, so it needs a cockload of energy to turn it to gas.

It's really efficient at chilling drinks becauase of this though. I shared a big house in North London during my PhD and we pretty much perfected the bath of salt, dry ice and water for chilling beer. about 30 seconds for a can.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Mon 13 Aug 2012, 12:24, closed)

i was thinking asphyxiation
Would it not give off loads of co2, starving the body of oxygen?
(tyrellsOwl, Mon 13 Aug 2012, 11:59, closed)

Not unless you inhaled it.
you don't breathe through your stomach.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Mon 13 Aug 2012, 12:22, closed)

I was thinking there would be a constant stream of co2 coming up your esophagus, which would in turn be inhaled whenever you breathe.
(tyrellsOwl, Tue 14 Aug 2012, 8:39, closed)

nah, your oesophagal sphincter closes when you breathe.
Or at least it should.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Tue 14 Aug 2012, 10:29, closed)