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Dancing Raisins Listen Now Download as mp3 from the show Do Animals use Toilet Paper? What you Need What to do Gently pour the fizzy drink into your glass. Add a few raisins Watch... What may happen You should find that the raisins dance up and down for several minutes until the drink goes flat. Why does it happen? Fizzy drinks are fizzy because they have had a lot of carbon-dioxide (CO2) dissolved in them under pressure. This means that bubbles tend to form on the edges of the water, ie on the bottom of the glass, and on your raisin. Eventually the bubbles make the raisin float and it moves upwards to the surface, where some of the bubbles pop and the raisin sinks again. Dave Ansell Multimedia Related Content How Does A Gas Nozzle Know When To Shut Off?

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