Cola contains a lot of sugar.
Yeast can live in sugar solution even if no air is available.
* Left: Threequarter
fill an infusion bottle with stale Cola * Add a
spatula of dry yeast, shake vigorously.
* Close by an empty balloon
in order to stop air supply.
Obervation
Photo 2 + 3:
A
foam is built and a gas can be collected in the balloon.
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Photo
4: Suck the gas from the baloon into a 100-mL syringe, blow it into
lime water.
Observation
2, explanation right
: The gas makes lime water milky because
yeast transforms sugar of Cola into carbon dioxide.