Why do Pop Rocks pop?
Chemistry For Your Life
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How to Control a Pop Rock in Your Mouth
If there was poison in one of these balloons, it would expand to fill the size of the container wer in. So inside your pop rocks are little bubbles inside the hard candy shell with highly concentrated c o two in them. That's known as pressurized carbon dioxide bubbles. An you need the pressure to contain them back.
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