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Because all the gas would build up inside it and it would eventually be to much for the bottle to handle so it would burst.

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why would it burst open tho?
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carbon dioxide (the gas that makes the bubbles ) is forced into the liquid at the bottling plant and then sealed quickly. The CO2 wants to leave the liquid so you get the bubbles when you drink it. If you wait too long or don't seal the bottle the gas all dissolves into the surrounding air. The plastic 2 liter bottles are actually somewhat porous to the gas and the soft drink will "go flat" after a period of time even if not opened.

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It goes flat because it is a solution of carbonic acid H2SO4, which is unstable so it decomposes into CO2 which creates the bubbles and H2O. When it is opened the CO2 is released leaving it flat because there are no more bubbles.
It is a decomposition reaction H2CO3-->CO2+H2O

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Soda explodes when it is heated up because it i a relationship between tempeature and volume. As the temperature is increaseing the volume is increaseing. This means that the facst moving moluclues and bouncing off the thin walls of the soda can causing it to burst

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When the soda is heated, all of the molecules in it get more kinetic energy. The

liquid part expands a little bit, but that doesn't make much difference. The part

that gets all the attention is the gas (CO2) that's inthe liquid. When any gas is

heated, it wants to occupy more space. If you keep it in the same amount of

space, it gets more pressure. If you keep heating a soda can or bottle, the gas

pressure can build up until it's greater than what the container was designed to

hold, and it's no longer capable of resisting the fierce desire that the gas has to

expand into more space.

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Heat causes the gases in the soda to expand. This expansion creates pressure that exceeds the maximum pressure the caps can withstand.

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because it get to hot then it rises and explodes all over the place

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Because heat transfers to colder objects, and the bottle left out in the sun is exposed to a lot more heat than the one in the refrigerator.

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