I was thinking of making lemonade and was wondering if it would let CO2 into the atmosphere or not.
Yes. Carbon dioxide is carbon dioxide. But the volume you’ll be releasing wouldn’t even show up as a 10th decimal rounding error, so I wouldn’t worry. Just breathing will release more.
naevaTheRat@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 months ago
Yes, except don’t do this.
The reaction is
NaHCO~3~ + CH~3~COOH -> Na^+^ + CH3COO^-^ + + H~2~O + CO~2~
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
Gamers_Mate@kbin.social 11 months ago
Good point Salty lemonade does not sound very nice.
naevaTheRat@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 months ago
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.
naevaTheRat@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 months ago
oh sorry brain fart, replace ethanoic acid with critic, 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
sparky678348@lemm.ee 11 months ago
You can edit your comment if you’re so inclined.
I appreciate all of this chemistry trivia ❤️
xkforce@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Actually adding 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 and adding sugar further reduces its effects.
naevaTheRat@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 months ago
Really? But to get decent carbonation you would need to add a lot. Like 15 grams or so because dissolution is not very efficient, most the co2 is going to pressurise the headspace