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reflex@kbin.social 11 months agoIt is more acidic than regular water, as the dissolved carbon dioxide creates carbonic acid.
Chemically-speaking, can you just wait for it to go flat? Or does that still leave something in the water?
Why would you do that though, I guess, flat sparkling water tastes like ass too from what I remember.
Dr_Cog@mander.xyz 11 months ago
Fun experiment time!
Take a glass of still water and a glass of sparkling water, and let it sit overnight. The sparkling water should have gone flat by then. Now taste them. Do they taste the same?
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Nope! The dissolved carbon dioxide takes a very long time to actually dissipate, and so there might still be some left over. But even still, there should be some carbonic acid left over from the CO2 molecules reacting with the H2O to make H2CO3, making the water very slightly acidic.