Why does carbonated water have a taste?
Chemistry For Your Life
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The Reverse Reaction of Carbonic Acid
It's the reverse reaction that acid forms when the carbon carbonation, the CO2 that's dissolved in the water to make our drinks fizzy sometimes has a little bit of a reaction to make carbonic acid. So that's why we keep our drinks in the fridge with the lid on, cold and under pressure. It's soluble under those conditions. I've never confirmed that, but I think they just keep it under higher pressure. But that is so weird. Just forcing some gas into some liquid into a container. Okay. We can put the pictures up of the atoms rearranging the same way we did for the baking soda baking powder episode. Here's the new thing that came out
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