Wikipedia:Picture of the day/December 8, 2004

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Picture of the day

Macro photograph of coca-cola bubbles

Historically, the first soda waters were prepared by adding sodium bicarbonate to lemonade. A chemical reaction between sodium bicarbonate and citric acid occurred to create carbon dioxide. The person who is usually credited with first successfully creating carbonated water is Joseph Priestley in 1796.

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