What is the chemistry of volcanoes?
Chemistry For Your Life
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The Role of Chemistry in Volcanoes
There's a really good article that came out from the Royal Society of Chemistry that talked about volcanoes and will link to it in our references as always. So I tried to hold on to things that I could easily say as a chemist, I am highly confident that this is what's happening. Okay. What essentially happens with volcanoes is there's a big Diet Coke and Mentos situation. Right? Or so it either does the big explosion, Diet soda and Mentos, it all comes out, right? Or more peaceful explosions could be sort of like if you just have a two liter that gets shook, shook it up and you open it and it kind of spills out, but it
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