You'll shoot your eye out: Popped champagne cork ejects CO2 at supersonic speeds - Ars Technica

Researchers "might consider the typical bottle of champagne as a mini-laboratory."

47 with 38 posters participating The pop of a champagne cork turns out to have something in common with a rocket launcher, according to a recent paper published in the journal Physics of Fluids. Sci… [+5095 chars]

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