So, I left some Diet Cherry Pepsi in the garage. As tends to happen in winter, the garage got cold. Damn cold. Cold enough to freeze soda. And since ice is lower density than liquid water, that means the frozen pop took up more space, pushing against the walls of the can. Additionally, it compressed the gas in the can. The end result is high pressure, high enough to burst the can.
This does not surprise me. That the pressure was high enough to blow the end off the can, in the process not only blowing the end of the can through the cardboard box, but also projecting the can itself through the other side of the cardboard box, shooting it across the garage leaving a trail of chunky frozen soda in its wake (and sprayed all over), took me a bit by surprise.
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Thats pretty cool! I use the “out in the cold” method with beer, Miller Highlife to be exact. Leave a case of it, bottles or cans, on the porch, the ones with low alcohol content freeze, the rest don’t. Very few freeze. Bud, on the other hand, all freeze!
Makes quite a mess in the freezer too when trying to cool a Pepsi and forgetting about it. 🙁
Brings to mind a disposable missile magazine… Hopefully you were able to sweep up the “exhaust” before it melted.
Also fun to see tank cars loaded with ethanol get a thorough cold-soak somewhere and then get transported to a warmer climate, developing several inches of frost.
I’ve always wanted to visit a place so cold when you take a leak, you literally “tinkle”. But now that I think about it, maybe I don’t.