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herewiss13) wrote2003-08-13 12:30 am
herewiss13) wrote2003-08-13 12:30 am
Who put the pop in the soda-pop?
Carbonated beverages? Who comes up with these things? Who woke up one day and said "CO2...lets put lots and lots of it in some flavored water!"
Myself, I have two theories, which I think are clever, and therefore are probably wrong.
1) Expanding gas cools. So when you crack open a can of pop, the temp of the drink goes down a few degrees, leaving you with a relatively cold beverage regardless of refridgeration. Unfortunately, I think carbonation predates pop cans (or bottles)...and who knows just how much effect that small expanding hiss of gas has on temperature anyway?
2) The bubbles keep you from gulping (well, keep most people), hence lengthening the beverage experience.
In any case, I find myself, more and more often, de-fizzing my drinks whenever possible. I want them flat.
::shrug::
Just one more quirk for the stable, I guess.
Myself, I have two theories, which I think are clever, and therefore are probably wrong.
1) Expanding gas cools. So when you crack open a can of pop, the temp of the drink goes down a few degrees, leaving you with a relatively cold beverage regardless of refridgeration. Unfortunately, I think carbonation predates pop cans (or bottles)...and who knows just how much effect that small expanding hiss of gas has on temperature anyway?
2) The bubbles keep you from gulping (well, keep most people), hence lengthening the beverage experience.
In any case, I find myself, more and more often, de-fizzing my drinks whenever possible. I want them flat.
::shrug::
Just one more quirk for the stable, I guess.
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Also, CO2's in solution until it forms bubbles and escapes the liquid. So you have a gas-liquid solution, which brings in freezing point depression effects.
(I may have mentioned this in my journal earlier this summer, but I had freezing pt depression graphically demonstrated to me once when I left a glass bottle of ginger ale in the freezer for several hours. When I popped the top, I could see ice forming as the CO2 came out of solution and bubbled out of the bottle, bouncing the freezing point out of its depression. Science in my kitchen! I thought it was very cool.)