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Question
Garima observed that when she left her tightly capped bottle full of water in the open sunlight, tiny bubbles were formed all around inside the bottle. Help Garima to know why it so happened?
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Solution
We know that air is present in water in the form of oxygen. Due to heating from the sunlight, the air that was dissolved in water started escaping. This escape of air resulted in tiny bubbles formed all around inside the water filled bottle.
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