Kids, adults forget about the cold at OH WOW! event today

YOUNGSTOWN

If you have been dismayed by the cold and blustery conditions of the last few days and yearn for spring, a little time experimenting with and understanding more about dry ice might make this winter’s most-frigid weather seem downright balmy.

“You can’t really contain the gas,” Mr. Ralf told a group of children about carbon dioxide, which, in its solid state, is dry ice that freezes at minus 110 degrees. “The gas really is useful in our lives.”

Mr. Ralf is a facilitator and educator at OH WOW! The Roger & Gloria Jones Children’s Center for Science & Technology, 11 W. Federal St., downtown. Saturday, he conducted a series of experiments for kids and adults during a two-hour Discover IT Chemistry program there.

Read about the event in Sunday's Vindicator or on Vindy.com.