He has been nominated twice for the main Edinburgh Comedy award, winning it on the second occasion. Mark is a TV and radio regular, appearing on nearly all panel shows around; Have I Got News for You, 8 Out of 10 Cats, Would I Lie to You, along with celebrity editions of Mastermind and Pointless.
The shelf life of dry ice depends mainly on how the dry ice is stored and the size of the brick. Dry ice is frozen carbon dioxide, the same gas that we exhale and that plants use for photosynthesis. It is never a liquid, it goes from a -109.3Â°F solid state directly into the gas stage. Because of these properties, dry ice enjoys most of its popularity at Halloween for making a fabulous witch's brew.
If you hold a piece of dry ice too long, it feels like it is burning your skin. Your skin isn't actually burning, though. What is actually happening is that the dry ice is freezing your skin. The dry ice is carbon dioxide that has been frozen at -110 Â°F (-79 Â°C). That's why it hurts when you hold it too long, because your skin is starting to freeze from its cold. Freezing skin is a bad thing, so I recommend not letting dry ice âburnâ you. The reason that freezing and burning can feel the same is because touching things that are very cold can do the same thing to your cells as touching things that are very hot.