I’ve got a basic level of understanding about temperature and particles (think high school physics/chemistry), but I’m intrigued as to why dropping ice into a room temperature fizzy drink can make it fizz so much it overflows its container
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It’s cause you’re introducing more ‘nucleation’ sites for bubbles to form.
If you were to pour a fizzy drink into a perfectly smooth glass, you’d get no bubbles at all cause there’s no wee imperfections for bubbles to form on.
This is why adding mentos to coke makes it fizz massively, Mentos are covered in little bubble sized pockets for fizz to form.
Ice is the same, it’s not the fact it’s cold. It’s the fact it’s rough and imperfect.
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