I assume carbonation is a gas? But wouldn’t it all immediately leave the drink when Injected? I know carbonation leaves over time but I would think it would be more immediate. I could google this but I enjoy conversation and giving someone the chance to show off their intelligence.
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When carbon dioxide is actually dissolved, we aren’t talking about tiny bubbles of gas, we are talking about individual molecules.
In that form, they aren’t exactly interested in bubbling out of your drink, they are just wandering around, like dissolved sugar in your tea. When the molecules run into eachother, they just bounce off and move on.
But when conditions change, like a reduction in pressure, the behaviour changes. When the molecules nudge eachother, the reduced pressure now allows them to stick to form microbubbles which then grow, and then when they are big enough, buoyancy makes them rise to the surface.
It’s a process, not an instantaneous thing.
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