Submitted by SpermWhaleGodKing t3_10n9la0 in explainlikeimfive
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The_Truthkeeper t1_j67lq4j wrote
'Air' didn't get in. You let the milk spoil, which is caused by bacteria reproducing. Bacteria are alive, they eat and shit like any other living thing. In your case, they ate the water and sugar in the milk and shat alcohol and carbon dioxide, and kept doing that until the pressure was too high for the container to hold.
SpermWhaleGodKing OP t1_j67ltgo wrote
Yeah this removal was wrong. This isn’t at all a personal thing, I genuinely wanted to know how the chemical phenomenon worked. This in no way affects my life personally. I don’t often store milk at room temperature and forget about it lol
SpermWhaleGodKing OP t1_j67lwii wrote
Okay I see. So the stuff they were shitting took up more space than the stuff they were consuming so it exploded?
The_Truthkeeper t1_j67mcy7 wrote
Exactly, gas takes up more space than liquid.
asdfcrow t1_j67mgn2 wrote
not more matter, the milk’s molecules are converted to gas molecules by chemical reaction, prob part of the bacteria growth/fermentation process, gas molecules want to be farther away from eachother than they did as liquids, and this was definitely the case here, because the molecules once converted to gas create pressure inside the bottle, the more milk molecules that the bacteria eats, the more gas is created, and the more pressure is built up inside the bottle until the seal breaks.
SpermWhaleGodKing OP t1_j67mu54 wrote
Ahhh rigjt yes the molecules or whatever are further apart or something I remember seeing those graphics in school lol
SpermWhaleGodKing OP t1_j67n0qg wrote
Thanks I get it now. I wasn’t really sure how it even happened cause I assumed if additional air/gas could get in idk how it wasn’t able to get back out.
This makes a lot more sense. I was just very surprised by the explosion and it made me curious lol
SpermWhaleGodKing OP t1_j67n52d wrote
What would happen if it was something stronger than a plastic bottle?
What if it was a very strong material sealing the milk in and the bacteria kept going making more and more gas? What would happen?
SpermWhaleGodKing OP t1_j67n5nh wrote
What would happen if it was something stronger than a plastic bottle?
What if it was a very strong material sealing the milk in and the bacteria kept going making more and more gas? What would happen?
The_Truthkeeper t1_j67onk0 wrote
The pressure will keep building up until either the container gives way or the bacteria run out of sugar to eat.
asdfcrow t1_j67oqt1 wrote
bigger explosion, or just crazy pressure that would just sit until it was released somehow, breaking container, etc, for example lol https://youtube.com/shorts/PsJzm84xTwo?feature=share
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