The soft drinks sold at county fairs are often dispensed from large pressurized containers that contain carbon dioxide gas above the liquid at a partial pressure of about 4 atm, compared to carbon dioxide’s normal partial pressure of 0.00035 atm in the air at sea level. a. Describe the reversible change that takes place inside one of these soft drink containers when the pressure of CO2 above the liquid is first brought from 0.00035 atm to 4 atm. Explain why this system comes to a dynamic equilibrium in which there is no net change in the amount of gas above the liquid or the amount of gas dissolved in the liquid.



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