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revolution More on that in a they said the biggest Factor on losing fizz is not whether you open the bottle fast or slow its whether the soda is warm or cold if the soda is warm it Doest matter How you open it youre Gonna lose a lot of fizz soda makers Force Carbon dioxide into drinks to make them carbonated the bubbles form carbonic acid which actually changes the taste of the drink Flat soda tastes too Sweet be cause that carbonic acid has been Gas dissolves easier in cold soda the fizz is in that because the Carbon dioxide molecules Are a lot More Active when warm so when a bottle of soda is warm theres a lot of buildup pressure from those Active Carbon dioxide molecules you open the bottle and theres suddenly a great pressure differential Between whats inside and outside the bottle that telltale Sod opening Hiss is the pressure equalizing itself and then with no pressure holding the Carbon dioxide in the soda it slowly leaks out through bubbles glad you asked so if you want to keep your soda fizzy keep it cold and Recap it fast mentos candies dropped into soda bottles have exploded into kid culture Over the past few years As one of the mos watched videos on the web and perhaps the kid science Experiment throw a Hal dozen mentos into a warm bottle of diet Coke and you have yourself quite a soda Geyser Steve Spangier a to science Guy based in Denver got it All fizzing Way Back in 2000 i talked to Spangier and asked How it feels to be the Man behind an internet legend we were in the right place in the right Spangier says Check it out at and today fascinating fact the worlds oldest Rock a tiny Grain of Jeff elder Zircon Crystal found in Australia is Esti mated to be billion years old it was dated by Simon Wilde a geology prof in Perth this Means he researched its age not that he took it out for crab today other fascinating fact its hard to sneak up on a sleeping Duck that because there Able to balance the need for sleep and survival keeping one half of the brain 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