Examples of Sublimation are
- Dry ice is the solid form of Carbon Dioxide. When dry ice is placed in contact with air, it gets converted into the gaseous Carbon Dioxide which appears like fog.
- Ice crystals inside boxes of frozen foods: Frozen foods sublime and results in formation of ice crystals inside the box or packet
- Ice and snow under certain conditions also show the presence of gases around the solid as the ice or snow sublimes.
- Iodine crystals kept in a container and heated to a temperature of around 100 degrees shows the formation of purple colour gas.
- Arsenic also sublimes in a similar fashion at a temperature of about 615 degrees
- Room, car or bathroom fresheners sublime when in contact with air. The odour is passed on throughout the space with the movement of air particles.
- Naphthalene mothballs also undergo sublimation. The process in similar to that of dry ice in nature
- Compounds containing Zinc also undergo sublimation at conditions of low pressure
- At temperatures between 25 and 50 degrees, Sulphur sublimates into gases that are toxic
- At the Arctic and Antarctic poles, frozen water at 0 degrees sublimes to escape into the atmosphere, this phenomenon is called Polar Evaporation.
