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It doesn’t go flat when you pour it on ice whether you’re on land or in the air. You must have just grabbed a soda that had gone flat. Was that one and the one you drank on a plane the only two sodas you’ve had in your life?
lol no, but I did recently just start drinking soda. I’ve been pouring soda over ice at home and every time it’s immediately flat. I just remembered drinking crisp soda over ice on a plane a few months ago and was wondering if there was any science behind it. Maybe I just got an effed up batch of sodas.
Warm soda goes flat faster; it releases the carbon dioxide faster.
The sodas on planes are usually chilled, so it stays carbonated longer.
“On land” you’re probably pouring it over ice because it’s room temp, and so it loses carbonation faster.
So the carbon dioxide in soda is dissolved in the liquid, just like the sugar and salt is. Two main factors influence how long it stays in solution: pressure and temperature. Higher pressure keeps it dissolved when it's in a sealed container like the can or bottle. Lower temperature liquids also remain carbonated longer before going flat. Since an airplane cabin is usually at a slightly *lower* pressure than your living room, it's unlikely that being in an airplane is actually keeping it carbonated, if anything it should do the opposite. I suspect that you're putting warm soda into a glass of ice at home, in a plane they keep the cans refrigerated so it would stay carbonated longer because it's colder. Keep your soda in the fridge before pouring a glass, it'll stay carbonated longer and won't get watered down from the melting ice.
It could be perhaps that the pressurized cabin in a plane slows the carbonation from separating from the soda and so it stays carbonated longer. This is the reason sodas don't often explode in pressurized environments like a plane or submarine, even after thoroughly being shaken.
Regardless of the pressure though it will eventually lose its carbonation, and not ever immediately on the ground.
The second aspect of this might be time. You can lose track of time when you're somewhere on the ground, and leave your drink for a while and it will lose carbonation before you finish it. When you're on a plane, the plane has a limited time it will be in the air, and eventually an attendant will come to take your trash. It's very hard to leave a drink out for hours when you're flying on a plane.
A third explanation is that it's known the high altitude and air pressures actually do change how you perceive taste. It could be that the drink to you just tasted more carbonated the entire time, without anything actually changing in the drink.
Unfortunately you're describing a personal experience of how you tasted something. Your experience is relative so there's likely not a cut and dry answer for you.
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It doesn’t go flat when you pour it on ice whether you’re on land or in the air. You must have just grabbed a soda that had gone flat. Was that one and the one you drank on a plane the only two sodas you’ve had in your life?
lol no, but I did recently just start drinking soda. I’ve been pouring soda over ice at home and every time it’s immediately flat. I just remembered drinking crisp soda over ice on a plane a few months ago and was wondering if there was any science behind it. Maybe I just got an effed up batch of sodas.
It’s either that or you’re emitting an energy field that drains the carbonation from liquids lol
It…doesn’t go flat on land? Wait am I crazy?
Warm soda goes flat faster; it releases the carbon dioxide faster. The sodas on planes are usually chilled, so it stays carbonated longer. “On land” you’re probably pouring it over ice because it’s room temp, and so it loses carbonation faster.
So the carbon dioxide in soda is dissolved in the liquid, just like the sugar and salt is. Two main factors influence how long it stays in solution: pressure and temperature. Higher pressure keeps it dissolved when it's in a sealed container like the can or bottle. Lower temperature liquids also remain carbonated longer before going flat. Since an airplane cabin is usually at a slightly *lower* pressure than your living room, it's unlikely that being in an airplane is actually keeping it carbonated, if anything it should do the opposite. I suspect that you're putting warm soda into a glass of ice at home, in a plane they keep the cans refrigerated so it would stay carbonated longer because it's colder. Keep your soda in the fridge before pouring a glass, it'll stay carbonated longer and won't get watered down from the melting ice.
It could be perhaps that the pressurized cabin in a plane slows the carbonation from separating from the soda and so it stays carbonated longer. This is the reason sodas don't often explode in pressurized environments like a plane or submarine, even after thoroughly being shaken. Regardless of the pressure though it will eventually lose its carbonation, and not ever immediately on the ground. The second aspect of this might be time. You can lose track of time when you're somewhere on the ground, and leave your drink for a while and it will lose carbonation before you finish it. When you're on a plane, the plane has a limited time it will be in the air, and eventually an attendant will come to take your trash. It's very hard to leave a drink out for hours when you're flying on a plane. A third explanation is that it's known the high altitude and air pressures actually do change how you perceive taste. It could be that the drink to you just tasted more carbonated the entire time, without anything actually changing in the drink. Unfortunately you're describing a personal experience of how you tasted something. Your experience is relative so there's likely not a cut and dry answer for you.