Why do bubbles in drinks become attracted to the sides of the glass?!

Question: The glass is not perfectly smooth, so the surface area of the liquid molecules rub up against the microscopic nooks and crannies in the glass. It has to do with surface tension. Surface tension is hard to explain but I can give you a few ideas of the effects of surface tension. First, have you ever looked at water on a surface, and saw that it "beads"? If there was no surface tension in the water, it would not hold together, and it would take shape of its container, or lack thereof. A big hype a couple of years ago was the mentos and diet cola thing. The menthos have millions of these same nooks and crannies that the glass has, only much more. The rapid release of the gas, caused by the two surfaces is what casue the fountain like rush.

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Answers: The glass is not perfectly smooth, so the surface area of the liquid molecules rub up against the microscopic nooks and crannies in the glass. It has to do with surface tension. Surface tension is hard to explain but I can give you a few ideas of the effects of surface tension. First, have you ever looked at water on a surface, and saw that it "beads"? If there was no surface tension in the water, it would not hold together, and it would take shape of its container, or lack thereof. A big hype a couple of years ago was the mentos and diet cola thing. The menthos have millions of these same nooks and crannies that the glass has, only much more. The rapid release of the gas, caused by the two surfaces is what casue the fountain like rush.

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Look up "surface tension."

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bubbles are based on imperfections in the glass... if you have a perfect surface in a glass, even champagne will not bubble in the glass..

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because molecules of different substance attract each other
as so with the case of glass and liquid

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are you asking this for science homework or something?

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*Maybe because 'inertia does not exist ' !!!

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