If a soft drink is cooled down, what happens?

Question

Since when temps. rise, solids become more soluable in water and gases become less soluable in water. If my soft drink has high concentrates of sugar and carbon dioxide what would be expected to happen?

Will sugar participate out?
Gas bubbles form and produce form?
Water evaporates rapidly?

Or, a combination of these answers? I know it can't be water evaporates rapidly only.

I am so confused!! Please help.

Answer 1

Well when liquids are cooled, molecules slow down. So, gas will actually stay as bubbles in the soda for a longer period of time. Depending upon the concentration of the sugar relative to the amount of liquid, the sugar may settle to the bottom of the drink or will stay mixed in and dissolved. Depending on room temp., water may or may not evaporate, and it will not evaporate at colder temperatures (water is not volitile). If evaporation of water occurs because of high temperature, then you will be left with sugar crystals and no gas, but you don't have to worry about this for colder temperatures.

Answer 2

I don't know if you are asking about if it is cooled or heated.

If the soda is heated, there will be less carbonation. This is because of the equilibrium of CO2. If exposed to an open atmosphere, the water would evaporate along with some of the syrup (soda uses high frutose corn syrup and not real sugar).

If the soda is cooled, more carbon dioxide diffuses into the liquid. When frozen there is still carbon dioxide gas but it is stored in the pockets of frozen liquid. Is it very difficult to change carbon dioxide into a solid so it won't solidify in your freezer.

Answer 3

for a real answer, i've tried this myself, but dont you realize, that at barbecues, people always have a cooler. so if this practice of cooling soft drinks was bad, then people would not get a cooler. if you've heard of the Kinetic Molecular Theory, it explains that as the molecules begin to get closer together, it begins to cool down. so you will probably have a pressure decrease, and we know that p1v1=p2v2 so the volume may have a change as well. try some experiments by yourself, using proper chemistry stuff.

Answer 4

You've never put a can of sodie pop in the refrigerator? Try it and make some empirical observations. You'll learn a lot more that way then having someone simply answer your questions for you. And just think how much fun you'll have drinking that nice cool beverage when your experiment is complete! Ahhh....isn't that nice?

Answer 5

You have the principles right.
The drink will be slightly less "fizzy" than at higher temp.s.
The sugar is not concentrated enough to precipitate out, but you are right that the solution is closer to saturation at the lower temp.

Answer 6

It becomes a cool drink