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

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anor277
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 #""^(-)C-=O^(+)#?

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