Why does freezing soda make it go flat?
In: Chemistry
The soda is carbonated in the first place because it has CO2 gas dissolved in it, basically meaning that there are CO2 molecules mixed in with and interacting with the water molecules of the soda. While I couldn’t find much information about this online when I looked for it, I’m fairly certain that the soda losses it’s carbonation because ice is much worse at dissolving CO2 than water is. Imagine it like this, when water is liquid you have a bunch of molecules moving around and sliding past each other and it’s pretty easy to squeeze some gas molecules in there too, but when water freezes, all of its molecules hold mostly still and align themselves into a crystal with very little room for other things in it. Hope that helps!
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