On 24 Nov 2004 13:12:40 -0800, (Droopy) wrote:

>Why is nitrogen not soluble in wine?

Most gases aren't very soluble in aqueous liquids- nitrogen would
rather be free in the atmosphere than caged up in a solution.

Carbon dioxide is much more water-soluble than most gases, partially
because it's a bigger molecule (so it's more polarizable], and
partially because it forms a Lewis acid-base adduct with water (so you
get equilibrium with "carbonic acid" and carbonates pulling the CO2
into solution].

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