so I'm sure it's happened to you you poured a glass of water set it down in your bedroom maybe you went to the gym maybe you went to work for a little while and you come back later and you see that there's bubbles on the inside of the glass that came from somewhere bubb my bubbles this wasn't soda water that you drank there were no bubbles there before and now there are for some reason like I've seen bubbles form on the inside of glasses a million times and I never thought anything of it and then
one day I noticed it and I I don't know my brain was like what's going on there and I got curious I I thought I knew why it was happening but I felt like no I need to go look this up I was wrong by the way but it turns out the answer is actually kind of interesting and it sort of points to the fact that there's a lot less difference between air and the ocean as you might think we're basically um we're basically hairy land fish so let's talk about that [Music] so we live
on a planet with water and air now you breathe in the air you don't Breathe In The Water please do not try to breathe in the water and in our minds those are two very separate things but it's actually kind of a porous border between the two states of matter there's gas that dissolves into water and there's water that evaporates into gas and it's a constant mix of these things in between that kind of makes everything work so when you talk about air it's mostly like the air that you breathe is mostly nitrogen and oxygen
it's like 70% nitrogen 20% oxygen and the rest is like Trace elements of all kinds of stuff good and bad some of them when they get too high they cause problems global warming we've heard it all and gases dissolve into water the reason this happens it gets into molecular chemistry it's a little bit complicated let me try to get this right so water as you know is H2O that's two hydrogen atoms to one oxygen atom this makes it a dipole or a permanent dipole as it's often called now gas molecules like O2 N2 Co O2
those are non-polar and the way these non-polar molecules interact with dipoles is through something called an intermolecular force this all has to do with the electrons and their orbits and having one side of the molecule be charged negative and the other side being charged positive and then the positive side of the O2 molecule gets attached to the negative side of the h2l molecule and they connect with each other this is called a dipole induced dipole intermolecular force so this sort of attraction to gases it's just sort of a feature of H2O and it's a good
thing that it attracts oxygen and nitrogen and whatnot because that's what allows fish to breathe underw that oxygen is just dissolved into the water now how much gets absorbed into the water has to do with a couple of things temperature and pressure the hotter the water that means more energy is in it and that means more movement of the water molecules more movement of the water molecules means more water molecules go up to the surface and that provides more opportunity for the gases to connect with it and then there's the pressure component of it the
more air pressure there is going up against the water that means more air molecules going up and touching the water surface and more again more opportunities for that gas to connect with the water molecules and dissolve into the water so more pressure more heat means more gases dissolved into the water less pressure less heat means more of the gases become trapped in the water so if you pour some cold water and put it in the room and let it warm up to room temperature that warming of the water will release the gases that are dissolved
in the water and in order for those gasses to come out of the water they need something called a nucleation point so these are like little tiny imperfections on the glass on the inside of the glass so just slowly over time as the water warms it kind of releases the gases and the gases kind of form around these nucleation points creating bubbles around the inside surface of the glass so this just happens through the warming process but if the pressure changes through say you know a weather change or something like that that can even accelerate
the process so while I wouldn't use this to predict the weather or anything seeing extra amounts of bubbles coming out of water might almost serve as a little bit of a barometer and give you an idea that maybe a low pressure system is moving in might start storming soon little old wife's tail for you and by the way the same thing is happening as you put cold water uh especially ice cold water into a room that's got some humidity in it all that will condensate on the outside of the water so on the inside you
got bubbles forming as it warms up on the outside you have condensation forming and by the way this is exactly how they do carbonation in soda they take CO2 and they pressurize it and they pump it into the water and uh it gets trapped in there and then they seal it up shut and it stay stays pressurized and when you open it up it releases all that uh gas the CO2 gas and the soda and it starts bubbling up and it does that for a while until it gets flat by the way if you're wondering
why they use CO2 especially in this day and age um the CO2 creates what's called carbonic acid and it kind of gives the a little sharpness to the drink like if you drink soda water or Topo Chico or something like that that kind of TV static sharpness that you get that's that's from the carbonic acid it kind of scratches your throat a little bit but it it kind of soes your throat at the same time it's it was it was medicinal early on and that was why so all of this dissolving of things into liquid
uh is kind of neat but it also has a very serious downside like you've probably heard of the bins the thing that divers get if they go too far down and then come up too fast that's basically what's happening they're breathing from an oxygen tank as they go down into the deep Waters and that pressure around them forces all of that oxygen into their blood like more so than normal because of the pressure and then when they go up too fast the oxygen comes out of the blood and now you got air bubbles in your
bloodstream which is a terrible thing it can cause heart attacks Strokes all kinds of problems and for the record it's not just oxygen that comes out of your blood it's nitrogen too and there is sort of such a thing as super pressurized water I did a video a while back on limnic eruptions I highly recommend it it's kind of one of my favorites that I've done but it uh it talks about how in certain really really deep Lakes especially a deep lake that has a lot of uh organic matter at the bottom of it that
releases CO2 that Co 2 can become sort of hyper pressurized way down at the bottom and the reason it doesn't escape is because there's so much pressure in a really deep lake that like forces that down but in really weird situations sometimes there's a little bit of an earthquake or something something shakes up the lake and it releases all that CO2 and it doesn't just like bubble up like a soda or something like that it explodes literally just a perfectly calm lake just explodes it explodes and it releases massive amounts of CO2 which is a
heavier gas so it kind of stays along the ground and in a few cases which I talk about in the video entire Villages have been wiped out it's really creepy and also again this is kind of how Mentos and the diet coke thing works is that the the surface of the Mentos the molecular structure of the the candy shell or whatever it creates millions of nucleation points that causes all this gas to come rushing out of the soda and that's what causes it to explode but all this just kind of goes back to the same
theme that I keep going back to on this channel pressure changes everything if it's a if it's a theme that I keep harping on it's because honestly it wasn't something I had ever thought about in all of my years of schooling and whatnot until I started looking into certain specific topics and I found out like what a big deal pressure is what a difference it makes anybody who is an actual engineering or science student probably is laughing because that's probably a big part of what you learn but I didn't take those classses so it was
news to me there's a phrase that I used to love um that says that the fish is the last it's in the water and I think about that a lot you know the the general idea of that statement is that you know when you're in something you're the last person to kind of see that you're in it because you're in it but in a lot of ways we are kind of like I said hairy landfish we live in a big soupy pressurized air environment that without this pressure we would not be able to exist we
don't think about it though it's just what we're used to we don't think about the fact that there's like you know 14 lbs of pressure per square inch all over our bodies and if that went away we would kind of explode it's kind of like we've all seen pictures of the blob fish and it just kind of kind of like lays there on the surface once you bring it out of the water but when it's in the water it doesn't look like that it doesn't look like a blob it looks like a normal you know
functional fish because it's made to be in that sort of pressurized environment without that pressure it just blurbs and we kind of do the same thing if you want to be horrified by this fact look up the uh the the biford dolphin incident I might make a video on that it's awful but we live in such a pressurized environment that the gases will literally just absorb into the water because that pressure forces it in there and that's a crazy thing to think about this is also why I get a little bit annoyed whenever on a
Sci-Fi uh show when they go to a new planet and they say oh it's got oxygen we're fine well if it has oxygen at the right pressure yeah you're fine but uh nobody ever talks about that in sci-fi but anyway anyway I just find this to be one of those little things that you see all the time and you maybe never thought anything of but it actually just points out to a really interesting thing about the way we live our lives on this planet and I thought I would share that with you of course another
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