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You’re going to burn your eyes out: a popped champagne cork ejects CO2 at supersonic speeds

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Andy Roberts/Getty Images The sound of a champagne cork turns out to have something in common with a rocket launcher, according to a recent article published in the journal Physics of Fluids. French and Indian scientists have used computer simulations to reveal in detail what happens in the microseconds after a bottle of champagne is …

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Antarctica’s only active volcano shows how CO2 allows volcanoes to form persistent lava lakes on the surface

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Left: 3D visualization of the magnetotelluric scan of the interior of Erebus (red is the most conductive and the richest in magma); Right: schematic representation of magmatic processes. Upflow from a deep crustal valve zone experiences episodic breakthrough of CO2 and entrained magma. The spatially continuous upward flow of CO2-dominated magma contrasts with the depth-limited …

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