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Bottled panic: CO2 trapped mid-escape, fizzing to remind you it wants out.
means The process of dissolving carbon dioxide gas into a liquid under pressure, so it escapes as bubbles when the pressure's released.
from From 'carbon,' traced back to Latin 'carbo' meaning coal or ember. Chemists in the 18th century, studying the 'fixed air' given off by burning and fermenting, eventually isolated and named the element carbon; 'carbonation' followed as the noun for charging something with its gas — first used for mineral waters and soda, bottling a bit of that same fire-born air.
- the sting
- carbonic acid tickles pain receptors, not just taste buds
- pressure drop
- opening the cap lets dissolved gas finally escape as bubbles
- flat fate
- warmer liquid holds less gas, so heat kills the fizz
- ancient fizz
- naturally carbonated springs were prized before anyone bottled bubbles