If you know how to read those. Sure the CO2 is the same if you let the vessel pressurise but that sodium ion and ethanoate isn’t! Sodium salts taste well very salty. It’ll ruin the lemonade
edit: oh also if climate. If you burn a tonne of coal that’s 3 tonnes of CO2 in what I like to call “nature’s fume hood” (don’t worry I’m sure it’s consequence free). We currently burn about 15 billion tonnes of coal alone per year. When I carbonate a litre of water around 5 grams dissolves I think? so if we have every single person on earth a litre of fizzy water each day we would emit 120 million tonnes of co2 a year. Which is 1% of coal alone, which is less than half our emissions of CO2 for power alone, and co2 isn’t the only factor in warming.
So even in the absolutely insane case of a planet of fizzy water addicts where even babies are chugging the stuff it wouldn’t matter at all.
oh sorry brain fart, replace ethanoic acid with citric, same difference really it’ll still be salty. I thought you meant adding vinegar and bicard like highschool science to make co2.
If you want though you can generate the co2 that way separately and pump the gas into the lemonade. That’ll not ruin the flavour
I’m actually the shards of what was once a bad physicist who dropped out of a PhD because they’re hard and I’m brittle.
I should’ve done chemistry though, firstly because it is cool and involves more than crying at your desk, secondly because I would actually have a job, thirdly because if I didn’t have a job I could at least make some drugs to cope with the stress, and fourthly because if the government came for my coping drugs I could make bombs to throw at them till they left me alone.
Actually adding (small amounts of) baking soda and an acid to drinks is a fairly well traveled (and old fashioned) means of carbonating them. The contribution of the Sodium to the taste of the drink usually isn’t very high unless you’re adding more than is needed for carbonation and can be overcome with the addition of a sweetener
Yes, except don’t do this.
The reaction is
NaHCO3 + CH3COOH -> Na+ + CH3COO- + + H2O + CO2
If you know how to read those. Sure the CO2 is the same if you let the vessel pressurise but that sodium ion and ethanoate isn’t! Sodium salts taste well very salty. It’ll ruin the lemonade
edit: oh also if climate. If you burn a tonne of coal that’s 3 tonnes of CO2 in what I like to call “nature’s fume hood” (don’t worry I’m sure it’s consequence free). We currently burn about 15 billion tonnes of coal alone per year. When I carbonate a litre of water around 5 grams dissolves I think? so if we have every single person on earth a litre of fizzy water each day we would emit 120 million tonnes of co2 a year. Which is 1% of coal alone, which is less than half our emissions of CO2 for power alone, and co2 isn’t the only factor in warming.
So even in the absolutely insane case of a planet of fizzy water addicts where even babies are chugging the stuff it wouldn’t matter at all.
Good point Salty lemonade does not sound very nice.
Yeah I tried this once as a kid haha. You neutralise a bunch of the acid so it isn’t crisp and sharp, instead it tastes like mildly lemon salt.
oh sorry brain fart, replace ethanoic acid with citric, same difference really it’ll still be salty. I thought you meant adding vinegar and bicard like highschool science to make co2.
If you want though you can generate the co2 that way separately and pump the gas into the lemonade. That’ll not ruin the flavour
You can edit your comment if you’re so inclined.
I appreciate all of this chemistry trivia ❤️
Edit my comment? Erase my mistake?
Tell me young one, can a man be unkilled? a lie untold? a promise unbroken?
Nay, I have done a fell thing and shall wear the stain of it forever.
I assumed you a chemist, what a blunder.
Clearly you’re a warrior poet with a passion for chemistry.
I’m actually the shards of what was once a bad physicist who dropped out of a PhD because they’re hard and I’m brittle.
I should’ve done chemistry though, firstly because it is cool and involves more than crying at your desk, secondly because I would actually have a job, thirdly because if I didn’t have a job I could at least make some drugs to cope with the stress, and fourthly because if the government came for my coping drugs I could make bombs to throw at them till they left me alone.
Nice, I dropped out of a poli sci degree for very similar reasons.
On the bright side you don’t need a PhD to produce drugs and bombs, and those things might help with the whole desk crying conundrum.
Actually adding (small amounts of) baking soda and an acid to drinks is a fairly well traveled (and old fashioned) means of carbonating them. The contribution of the Sodium to the taste of the drink usually isn’t very high unless you’re adding more than is needed for carbonation and can be overcome with the addition of a sweetener