I’m on my way to work and this just happened to me and I can’t make sense of it seeing as the same amount of energy should be in the bottle if it is sealed right? ELI5
In: Chemistry
A resting bottle of soda will onlu have tiny bubbles of air rest of air at the top. Hence when opened only air rushes out. A shaken bottle of soda will have some of the air in a mixture with the liquid. when you open the bottle the sudden reduction in presure the larger bubbles of air in the liquid escape from the liquid slower than they expand so you end up with a liquid/air spraying everwhere
The carbon dioxide that has been dissolved into the soda can’t spontaneously expel itself from the solution, and it needs something to “build off of.” A sudden shock to the bottle can do that, as will a piece of menthos candy which is very porous and provides a highly effective nucleation site for the bubbles to grow on.
Similarly, you can also have liquid water beyond its freezing- and boiling points by either cooling or heating up very slowly in a clean environment, and the phase change won’t occur until the water is disturbed.
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