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You can look at tap water and sparkling (tap water + CO2 injection) and note that the sparkling water is more acidic. (Because CO2 dissolves in water into carbo
by simonsarris 10y ago
You can look at tap water and sparkling (tap water + CO2 injection) and note that the sparkling water is more acidic. (Because CO2 dissolves in water into carbonic acid)
CO2 + H2O ⇌ H2CO3
CO2 injection to make sparkling water is a lot like CO2 being absorbed by the oceans.
- djrogers 10y ago> CO2 injection to make sparkling water is a lot like CO2 being absorbed by the oceans. So the purpose of the demonstration is to show that we're making the oceans yummier? Awesome!
- schoen 10y agoOh, I completely missed the point of the demonstration! I though there was going to be some way in which one of the kinds of water had changed from its historical pH due to indirect effects of human activity (which didn't make sense to me).