Ideal gas law: can you use it to find P during exsolution?

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The discussion centers on applying the ideal gas law to determine the pressure (P) in a sealed bottle of soda during gas exsolution. The proposed formula, P = mRT/V, utilizes the small volume change (V) of the bottle due to gas expansion, where m represents the density of the gas multiplied by the volume of gas that would exsolve (V1). The inquiry suggests that understanding the relationship between the volume change and pressure can provide insights into the behavior of gases in solution, particularly in scenarios where fluids ascend above their saturation pressure.

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  • Understanding of the Ideal Gas Law (PV=nRT)
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  • Basic principles of fluid dynamics
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If you shake up a bottle of soda and it gets slightly larger because the disturbed gas in solution is trying to expand but cannot, could you use the difference in (THE SMALL AMOUNT THE BOTTLE ACTUALLY SWELLED) and the (POTENTIAL AMOUNT THE GAS WOULD SWELL IF NOT CONTAINED) to determine the pressure in the bottle?

e.g. PRESSURE = mRT/V ... where V is the tiny amount the bottle swelled and m = density_gas*V1 where V1 is the volume this exsolved amount gas would fill if not contained?

(and let's just pretend you knew how much gas exsolved when you shook it ... because we pretend in physics).

Or am I just barking up the wrong tree entirely? :)
 
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By the way, I know the pressure would keep a certain amount of gas in solution regardless of what it "wanted" to do, but in my real problem (which seemed to annoying long and complicated to post here) the fluid will be ascending to a point above it's saturation pressure and have more freedom (although not total) to expand than soda in a bottle.
 

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