Nucleation & Growth
Liquid
Live Readout
Active bubbles
0
Dissolved CO2
100%
Avg radius
0.00 mm
Avg rise speed
0.0 mm/s
Bubbles burst
0
Elapsed
0.0 s
Under the hood

Each bubble nucleates at a glass-wall imperfection, grows by CO2 diffusing in from the supersaturated liquid, and rises once buoyancy beats drag.

  • Growth: dr/dt = k (roughly linear, diffusion-limited)
  • Rise speed: Stokes' law, v = 2gr²Δρ / (9η)
  • Degassing: C(t) = C0·e^(−t/τ), τ shrinks as temperature rises
  • Nucleation rate ∝ base rate × C(t)/C0
v(r) = 2·g·r²·(ρ_liquid − ρ_gas) / (9·η)