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When an ice cube is added to a fizzy drink, why does it bubble?
Whenever an ice cube is added to a fizzy drink, it starts to froth and bubble. This means that the carbon dioxide is expelled from the solution. But if I remember correctly, gas solubility in a liquid should increase with decreasing temperature. Why, then, is the gas expelled from the solution?
2 Answers
- 1 decade agoFavourite answer
I think it may be related to the reason that a flawed glass will have bubbles constantly streaming from the flawed point. The bubbles bounce around in the drink but they stick to the flawed point (or, in your case, I'm guessing they'd do the same to the ice cube) and grow until they're too big to contain. So they then shoot to the surface.
This is a somewhat uneducated guess though; sorry.
- wathenLv 44 years ago
once you upload ice the drink fizzes up. that's something called a nucleation component. the pointy edges variety bubbles and the gas is released without postpone. This helps to make the drink circulate flat as does the melting of the ice including water to the drink.
