Does any substance other than water sublime?

Dry ice (solid carbon dioxide) is an example of a substance which sublimes at room temperature and pressure. Presumably that is how it got its name as there is no wetness when it transforms. Dry ice sublimes because the most thermodynamically favourable transition under these conditions is directly from solid to gas (with no intermediate liquid phase).

The state which a substance takes is determined by thermodynamics. All substances have what is called a triple point. This is the unique temperature and pressure at which all three phases, solid, liquid and gas can exist simultaneously.

Since most experiments are conducted at atmospheric pressure there is limited opportunity to observe sublimation. However, if we can adjust the pressure we can observe sublimation for any substance.

Dry ice is actually solid carbon dioxide (CO2), which does sublime (liquid nitrogen is N2). All solids sublime to a certain degree, even gold bars! The reason you don't notice most of the time is because the rate of sublimation is so slow that it would take many lifetimes for a noticeable change in size.

To make sublimation make more sense, think of it as a solid dissolving in a gas. If you have air around a chunk of ice but the air is colder than 0ºC, the ice will not melt. But if the air is very dry it will dissolve some of the water molecules without those molecules ever entering the liquid phase. Proof it works: can you smell a solid wax candle? What you're smelling is molecules of that candle that are dissolved in air.

OK Let us cut out all the mutual bad mouthing and return to science,

1) we have concluded quite correctly that water does not sublime

2) we have also concluded correctly that dry ice is solid carbon dioxide that does sublime

3) what other common substance sublimes? We are forgettong the most obvious and simplest one - pure iodine: To quote from Wiki:

Iodine under standard conditions is a shiny grey solid. It can be seen subliming at standard temperatures into a violet-pink gas that has an irritating odor.

4) can anybody else make a courteous contribution to this discusssion?

The organic substance called ferrocene sublimes nicley, a good way to purify as only the ferrocene goes into gas phase when heated leaving impurities behind, you can recondense the pure substances in a filter funnel over a hotplate.

*******Dry ice is solid CO2 not liquid nitrogen!!. (1)

Two things - firstly, water does NOT sublime at atmospheric pressure, you are mistaken. You said it melted and sublimed simultaneously, and that is not so.

Secondly, dry ice is NOT liquid nitrogen. It's SOLID carbon dioxide, whose sublimation gives the cloudy gas effect.

Your really need to brush up on your basics.

Iodine

Ferrocene (FeC10H10) sublimes at about 84 degrees C

Nickelocene (NiC10H10)

Gallium trifluoride (GaF3)

Uranium hexafluoride (UF6)

Mercurous fluoride (HgF)

Mercurous chloride (HgCl)

Mercurous bromide (HgBr)

dry ice...makes fog

napthalene balls....camphor.....Copper sulphate crystals...etc....run a google search!