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Question
Soda bottle bursts sometimes when it is opened during summer. Why?
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Solution
- In a soda bottle, carbon dioxide gas is dissolved in water under pressure.
- The gas in the bottle expands.
- Hence, the pressure inside the bottle increases.
- Thus the bottle may burst in hot summer.
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