Compare Two Bottles Of Soda

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How Much CO2 is in a Bottle of Soda? __Dr. David G. Haase, The Science House (2005-2006) I was wondering that the other day and remembered that one good way to get the carbon dioxide out of a soda is to shake it. My son demonstrated how to do this. This led to an experiment which you can try for yourself and investigate the amount of carbon dioxide dissolved in different beverages and how much can be released at different temperatures. To do this experiment I used a few 16 ounce (454 milliliter) plastic bottles of Pepsi One (at room temperature) and an electronic scale that could hold 0.5 Kg and could be tared.Your chemistry teacher may have such a scale. First I put a bottle of the Pepsi One on the scale and pressed the "tare" button. This sets a 'zero' on the scale so that…show more content…
On the first bottle I learned how to spew Pepsi all over the room. For the other two bottles I found that each one contained about 2.2 grams of carbon dioxide under pressure dissolved in the liquid! That is enough gas to fill up a liter bottle at standard temperature and pressure! This is not all of the carbon dioxide in the soda. There is still carbon dioxide gas dissolved in the liquid at atmospheric pressure. The amount is very small and depends on temperature. It would be interesting to try this experiment again with a cold bottle and a warm bottle. Because carbon dioxide affects the pH of the soda it might be interesting to compare the pH of the fresh out of the bottle and the "defizzed" soda. What is the pressure that is used to put the carbon dioxide into the bottle in the first place? The bottle manufacturers design the bottle to hold about 20 atmospheres of pressure before they burst. Some other things to experiment with: How would results of this experiment change if you used a very cold soda? Could you measure the pH of the soda before and after you de-fizzed it? How would you expect it to

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