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Dec 2022
47m 27s

Champagne Fizzics, Last Days of the Dino...

SCIENCE FRIDAY AND WNYC STUDIOS
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Keeping The Bubbly In Your Holidays, With Fizzical Science As the year winds to a close, you may be attending gatherings where a festive flute of champagne is offered. Champagne production starts out with a first fermentation process that turns ordinary grape juice into alcoholic wine. A second fermentation in the wine bottle produces the dissolved carbon di ... Show More
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