Subject: It's not *really* possible shake a soda can so hard it bursts, is it?

Ok, so that's a smidge misleading. I'm referring to the question "Is it 
possible to shake a can of soda so much that it will combust?" in 
the "Other" category, answered by Sarah Earley. Maybe it's possible to 
make a previously strained can burst just by the force of holding and 
shaking vigorously, but i don't see how you could make CO2 come out of 
solution in a closed can that way. After all, you're not changing the 
temperature or pressure. At most, couldn't you just speed a change that 
was already taking place by increasing bubble formation? I wonder if this 
isn't the case in the described scenario, making warm soda cans expand by 
shaking. If they had only recently reached a new, warmer temperature, the 
dissolved CO2 would already be slowly coming out of solution, but would do 
so much faster if the cans were agitated. To really test this, you would 
have to make sure the cans were at equilibrium before shaking.

Re: It's not *really* possible shake a soda can so hard it bursts, is it?