What cause a warm bottle of carbonated drink to "explode" when placed in a freezer overnight?
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Water expands when it freezes. The drink was mostly water. That broke the glass, but it brokr before the drink was completely frozen, so the carbonation caused the drink to spray all over the freezer.
715273
i drink it in those freezer cups that have water in the middle wall. i have a bunch of those cups in my freezer. i love them, keeps my rootbeer icy cold.
1014216
The release of CO2 gas in from the pop will make small crystals out of the sugar and syrup solution because of an increase in the freezing point of the solution.  But your freezer is likely to be a bit colder than 3.3 degrees, maybe between 1 and 2.5.
829997
Perhaps a light wouldnt work under the extreme conditions of a freezer :D
453393
Yes.  That's why the evaporator coils of a refrigerator or freezer get frosted.
1096422
The fizz is a bunch of bubbles but they dont "explode" because of the static electricity in the hand. When the soda is made, you basically have a shit-load of carbonic acid in it. Carbonic acid is a fairly unstable substace. If you give it any reason, it will conver to carbon dioxide and water. so to keep it the carbonic acid form, the producers put a lot of preassure in the can. As soon as the can is opened a lot of the carbonic acid gets turned into carbon dioxide because you get rid of this preassure. This is evedent becasue you see the bubbles being formed when opening pop. All of the acid is not turned into CO2 though. Some of it get transformed due to the heat in the mouth (this is your fizz). if you stick a finger while pouring the drink, you are heating the pop thus creating the carbondioxide before it actually reaches your mouth. As a result you get to feel less amount of the fizz.
811822
The 1st and 3rd answerers above me have correctly identified the mistake in the question itself. Anyway, the answer is found in school science books and it is the density (mass per unit volume) of the ice is less than the density of water of given volume.\n\nTherefore, you would also see that if a glass bottle is filled with water and allowed to get cooled inside the freezer, the bottle will crack when the inside water is turned into ice. This is because the volume of the ice increased and there were not space to accommodate "extra volume" created when ice was formed.\n\nNice learning!
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If you meant,  "How are a soft drink and magma  alike?" it goes like this.  In magma there are a lot of compressed gasses of  various  kinds, including carbon dioxide, the compressed gas in soft drinks.  When the magma is very deep in the earth, the gasses are powerfully compressed and the bubbles remain very small. But  as the magma rises to the surface of the earth, the pressure decreases and the  bubbles become larger.  This is something  like popping the top on a can of warm soda after shaking it up real hard.  The soda kind of explodes from the expanding carbon dioxide bubbles getting very large, very fast.  The same  thing happens with the compressed gasses in erupting magma.  They  help cause the magma to explode up into the air.  Other compressed gasses in magma include hydrogen sulfide and sulfer dioxide.
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This sounds pretty bad, specially since 2 days have already passed.\nIt seems as if your tastebuds were somehow poisoned or injured either by the liquid hydrogen or by the extreme freezing caused by it. You should go to the doctor as soon as possible! There might still be time to reverse the damage.\n\nLiquid hydrogen is used as a coolant and as a component of rocket fuel.... what the Hell were you or your friends thinking?\nDon't wait any longer. Go to the doctor now! Good luck.\n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liquid_hydrogen
1102012
the change back to room temp. with the alcohol  in the mix is what causes it. I used to own a bar and I would keep the coolers at about 28 degrees  the beer wouldnt be froze till you took it out and opened it  then it would freeze right in front of the customer,,,,,, they just loved it  ,,,,, they knew they were getting the coldest beer in town.!!!!!!\n\nS
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Pepsi is carbonated (contains bubbles of carbon dioxide).  This means that there is actually less volume of frozen liquid to be melted.
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Baking soda added to water raises the temperature slightly.\n\nBaking soda and water is exothermic and so the water gets a little warmer. This is because the binding energy of the chemical bonds of the products has an excess over the binding energy of the components. Therefore, energy is released and the water warms up.\n\n\nBaking soda is NaHCO3 and water is H2O. Added together you get NaOH and H2CO3 which are sodium hydroxide and carbonic acid. \n\nCarbonic acid is the fizz in soda. Eventually the mixture releases CO2 gas when the H2CO3 breaks down into H2O and CO2. The solution of H2O and CO2, if left alone uncorked, will lose its fizz. The water CO2 mixture will cool off slightly when the fizz (CO2) is released because the CO2 takes some energy with it. As the water evaporates it cools off because the warm molecules of water evaporate first! That's right! The warm ones!
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the outside of the cubes melt the fastest while the inside are still froze.  What happens is the inside refreezes the melting outside therefor sticking together.  This will even happen while in ther freezer (if it is a self-defrosting kind)
509155
It would take exactly the same amount of time, once frozen there is little difference, between orange soda, and water. The sugar and CO2 in the soda, doesn't effect the time it takes for the frozen soda to melt, I have tried this in the lab, and the difference in the melt time is negligible. If you don't believe me, you will just have to do this experiment yourself.
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It should crumple up when the water cools down. This is because the air trapped in the bottle undergoes contraction upon cooling, and in the absene of extra gas filling up the space left behind, the walls of the bottles are forced inwards, thus deforming them.
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well basically its just a chemical reaction.\n\nSince Soda is basically just made up of sugur,flavoring, water and preservatives. Since Mentos is a heavy peice of candy it sinks to the bottom of the coke bottle which making it easier for more bubbles to be formed from the bottom up. Each Mentos candy has thousands of tiny pits all over the surface. These tiny pits are called nucleation sites - perfect places for carbon dioxide bubbles to form. So thats what causes the eruption and boom it explode.
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It might be hard to sue the manufacturer because how do you know that they were at fault...it could be the store's error.  What if the store forgot to refrigerate it (if frozen or refrigerated), delivery company might have caused the problem, etc.  You would have  to be able to trace who was really at fault for the "tainted" lemonade before suing or it would get thrown out before it ever got anywhere.