In the SD column of May 17, 1985, titled “My Nutrasweetened soft drinks make huge mounds of foam! What gives?”, I believe there may be an error.
Cec sez: “… there was still a significant amount of foam left around the edge of the Diet Coke glass, whereas the regular Coke had all boiled down to nothing. Cecil attributes this partly to the fact that the products had been chilled” — Actually, IIRC, basic science teaches us that gases like CO2 dissolve better in cold liquids and solids dissolve better in hot liquids. I see this is true as I can’t wash dried egg off my plate very well in cold water, but it melts in hot. Also I’ve noted that warm soda fizzes like the dickens, even over ice, and ice cold soda is nearly flat by comparison.
So, what gives? Was Cecil (gulp) (of soda) wrong? Or did the fundamental rules of science change in the past 25 years?