Chemistry Of Soda Pop Chemistry

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Chemistry of Soda Pop First, we need to start out with what exactly soda pop is. Soda pop is defined as a sweet drink consisting of soda water, flavoring, and carbonation in the Merriam-Webster dictionary. The first thing that brought about the idea of soda, though this may sound strange, was hot springs. You may say how does this relate? Well, people were really interested in where the bubbles from these hot springs came from. So scientists did some research and found that carbon dioxide and gas carbonium were responsible for the bubbles that people observed in these hot springs. Some of the very first soft drinks during the seventeenth century did not have any carbonation at all. It was not until 1767 when a doctor Joseph Priestley created