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Query:

Subject: Why do straws float upwards from a glass of soda?

Date: Thu Oct 28 05:49:48 2004
Posted by Faith
Grade level: undergrad School: university of new hampshire
City: durham State/Province: nh Country: usa
Area of science: Physics
ID: 1098960588.Ph
Message:

I often drink lime soda in India, where I am now studying.  The straws always 
float upwards and eventually fall out of the glass, until I drink about a third 
of the soda.  After that, the straw stops floating upwards and remains in the 
glass.  Why does it do that?


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