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At room temperature, at what pressure would you expect dry ice to melt

instead of sublime?

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1 atmosphere pressureAlso, dry ice placed on a warm surface will not melt, because carbon dioxide cannot be liquefied unless subjected to pressures greater than 5.1 atm (Figure 1). Rather, a piece of dry ice will go directly from the solid to the gaseous phase (it will sublime) when it warms at 1 atmosphere pressure (Figure 1, red arrow

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