Ideas on where to get a reasonnable quantity of dry ice?

DeathWolf · 2014-08-11 14:17:46

Hi all, The only place I have found so far to find dry ice is dryice.ie/polarice.ie. Unfortunatelly, it's 10kg minimum, with a 17EUR shipping delivery, which is 10 times more than what I need. Does anyone know of any shop that would sell it in small quantities? I don't mind if the price per kg is much higher. One solution…

11-08-2014 03:17PM

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DeathWolf

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Hi all,

The only place I have found so far to find dry ice is dryice.ie/polarice.ie.
Unfortunatelly, it's 10kg minimum, with a 17EUR shipping delivery, which is 10 times more than what I need.

Does anyone know of any shop that would sell it in small quantities? I don't mind if the price per kg is much higher.

One solution that I have been eye-ing is buying CO2 extinguisher, as youc an use them to generate dry ice(at ~30% efficacy). That is quite expensive still(count 40EUR for 5kg of CO2 in an extinguisher) but at least it's more "on demand".

Thanks for any suggestion!

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#2 11-08-2014 07:37PM

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Perhaps post here: http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/forumdisplay.php?f=391

Whatcha doin'?

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#3 11-08-2014 08:19PM

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I'm in the Biology department in NUIM and we get a fair amount of deliveries that arrive on dry ice (biological samples and enzymes usually) that is generally just allowed evaorate off afterwards. If you're near a University/IT that has a biology department you could try contacting them? DCU, Trinity, UCD and IT Tallaght all do off the top of my head.

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#4 18-08-2014 01:24PM

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Victor wrote: »

Whatcha doin'?

Home made freeze dryer:)
I need a moisture trap in between the vacuum chamber and the vacuum pump... the only reasonnable way of doing that is having part of the tube at -60 ish. I've been looking at many ways of doing that, but ethanol+dry ice seems to be the least expensive way of doing it unfortunatelly.

Liquid nitrogen works well, but is way more expensive & hard to find than dry ice as far as I could see.

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#5 18-08-2014 01:25PM

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ScienceNerd wrote: »

I'm in the Biology department in NUIM and we get a fair amount of deliveries that arrive on dry ice (biological samples and enzymes usually) that is generally just allowed evaorate off afterwards. If you're near a University/IT that has a biology department you could try contacting them? DCU, Trinity, UCD and IT Tallaght all do off the top of my head.

Would be good if I could find someone at trinity college that receives that kind of package:)(it's almost next door)

Anyone working in the biology dept of trinity?

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#6 18-08-2014 01:29PM

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You could ask over here

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