How does carbon dioxide dissolve in water?
In normal conditions there will a little bit of carbon dioxide dissolved in water. In chemistry, there is something called La Chatelier’s principle which states that when a change is made to a closed system, the system will react to minimize the effect of the enforced change. For example, when you open a coke bottle, the reason all the carbon dioxide forms out of the liquid is because you’ve decreased the pressure inside the bottle and the bottle is actually reacting to form more gas molecules in order to raise the pressure again. Under normal conditions, the water and the surrounding carbon dioxide is in equilibrium and carbon dioxide will not continue to dissolve in water indefinitely.
