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magpie | 20:13 Wed 13th Jan 2016 | Science
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why is it when i open a bottle the outside is a lot colder than it was fresh from the fridge unopened thanks
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yeah good question magz could get a child interested in the age old thing of getting work out of heat Old Geezer is appealing to somehting known as the gas laws - see his contribution - it is the reverse of pumping up a bicycle tyre ( which gets hot ) or that pressure and temp are both able to do work ( forms of energy ) and are connected so some of the temp energy is used...
10:25 Thu 14th Jan 2016
I guess the bottle was pressurized and the release of pressure caused the temperature to drop
I'm sorry. I don't understand the question, magpie.
Tilly- I think magpie is saying that as he opens the bottle/can the temperature of the glass/plastic/tin can falls noticeably.
Thanks, FF. I have no experience of that.
Not with a champagne bottle, Tilly?
bless my soul, ff, you think Champagne is pop? You set the bar high.
Don't you have it on your cornflakes too then jno?
Anyway, it's fizzy like pop and the effect of opening the bottle is like magpie's description
Study was too long ago to recall details but https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gas_laws

Opening the bottle increases the volume, which reduces the pressure, so the temperature drops. Or something like that. As scowie stated. Same principle the fridge was using before you removed the bottle.
yeah good question magz

could get a child interested in the age old thing of getting work out of heat

Old Geezer is appealing to somehting known as the gas laws - see his contribution - it is the reverse of pumping up a bicycle tyre ( which gets hot )

or that pressure and temp are both able to do work ( forms of energy ) and are connected so some of the temp energy is used for the pressure drop ( release of energy ) and so it goes down. ( beginning of a subject called thermodynamics - science of conversion of heat into work )

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