What gas causes sparkling wines, soft-drinks, and bottled lagers to effervesce? A. carbon monoxide; B. dioxygen; C. dinitrogen; D. carbon dioxide.

1 Answer
Mar 27, 2017

Option D

Explanation:

Carbon dioxide is the carbonation in soft drinks and beers, and champagnes. When we bottle beer or ginger beer at home, we add a teaspoon of sugar just before we cap the bottle. This sugar will be fermented by residual yeast to give carbon dioxide, and a sparkling drink.

What would happen if we added CO+?