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Any carbonated beverage has carbon dioxide added under pressure to the liquid: when the drink is opened, the gas slowly diffuses back into the atmosphere (you can see the bubbles) until the drink goes "flat" and there is only a tiny amount still in solution.

SHAKING THE DRINK adds energy to the drink's molecules, and more especially to the molecules of dissolved gas. This increases their vapor pressure, just as heating the drink would. If the drink is opened, the gas molecules will more energetically escape the liquid into the air, and can rapidly carry liquid up out of the bottle with them (the drink "fizzes up" or "fizzes over").

Within a few minutes, the gas molecules will have expended their extra energy in collisions with other molecules and the bottle (adds negligible thermal energy to the bottle), and it is safe to open.

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