Ideal Gas Law

I recently had the opportunity to attend a conference of the Associated Chemistry Teachers of Texas (ACT2). I had  great time interacting with and learning from a whole bunch of wonderful chemical educators from the great state of Texas.

Bottles of soda are sealed under high pressures of CO₂, or P_CO2. This causes a substantial amount of CO₂ to dissolve into the beverage, giving the drink its fizziness. But what exactly is the pressure inside a bottle of soda?

Did any of you guess what was going on in Chemical Mystery #4:  The Case of the Misbehaving Balloon?  In this experiment, several balloons were placed in liquid nitrogen.  Most of these balloons shrunk tremendously – to almost zero volume – when cooled

  By Tom Kuntzleman and Randy Wildman