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Mix a spoonful of baking soda with a splash of vinegar in a cup and watch it bubble up like magic.

What is really happening when the mixture fizzes?

The two mix and make a gas
When baking soda and vinegar mix, they react together and make a gas called carbon dioxide, and all those little bubbles rushing to escape are what cause the fun fizzing.

Baking soda and vinegar react the moment they touch, and that reaction produces carbon dioxide gas. Because the gas forms quickly and needs somewhere to go, it escapes as a rush of bubbles, causing the fizz.

The mixture doesn't get noticeably colder in a way that explains the fizzing, and it definitely doesn't freeze — the fizzing is entirely about gas bubbles escaping.

This same fizzy reaction powers classic homemade volcano models, where escaping carbon dioxide bubbles push foamy 'lava' out of the opening.

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