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Carbonated water (which is known as soda water, sparkling water, seltzer water, Fizzy water or club soda) water which is under pressure carbon dioxide gas is, dissolved. Some of these additives, before-mentioned as sodium chloride, sodium bicarbonate or similar, but Seltzer water is virtually always composed of water and carbon dioxide with no other additives. This method, known as carbonation, is a process that causes the water to become bubbling. Most carbonated water is, exchanged in ready to drink bottles such as carbonated Beverages, such as soft drinks. But it can also be prepared at home with soda makers.

Many alcoholic drinks such as beer, wine and champagne, were carbonated via fermentation process for centuries. In 1662 Christopher Merret was the making of 'Sparkling'. In 1750, the Frenchman Gabriel François Venel produced artificially carbonated water for the first time. It is, believed that William Brownrigg and Henry Cavendish also infused water with carbon dioxide at this stage.

In 1767, Joseph Priestley discovered a method of infusing water with carbon dioxide as he dangled a bowl of water over a beer tax on a local distillery in Leeds, England. The air blanketing the fermenting beer called "fixed air". Priestley gained water thus treated had a pleasant taste, and offered it to his friends and family as a cold, refreshing drink. During that time, as now, sodium bicarbonate was used in medicine and for making baking powder. Known as soda bicarb, was produced by Bubbling carbon dioxide through a solution of sodium carbonate obtained from the ashes of plants. Joseph Priestly called it in soda water (or soda) since Bubbling was produced by carbon dioxide, by water. In 1772, Priestley wrote a paper called Impregnating Water with Fixed Air in which he describes drop "of oil Vitriol" (sulfuric acid) onto chalk to produce carbon dioxide gas, and encouraging the gas to dissolve in an agitated bowl of water. Priestley referred to his invention of soda water as his "happiest" discovery.

In the late eighteenth century, JJ Schweppe (1740-1821) developed a process to make carbonated mineral water, based on the process discovered by Priestley; it was the Schweppes Company in Geneva in 1783. In 1792 he moved to Central London to develop the business there. In 1799, Augustine founded Thwaites Thwaites' Soda Water in Dublin. A London Globe article claims that this corporation was the first to patent and sell "Soda Water" under that name.

Modern carbonated water is, produced by passing pressurised carbon dioxide through water. The pressure increases the solubility and allows more carbon dioxide to dissolve than would be possible under standard atmospheric pressure. If the bottle is, opened, the pressure is released, allowing the gas to come out of the resolution, forms the characteristic bubbles.

Whether homemade or store-bought, soda water can be identical to plain carbonated water or may contain a small quantity of table salt, Sodium Citrate, sodium bicarbonate, bicarbonate, potassium sulphate, potassium, disodium phosphate or potassium Citrate, depending on the bottler. These additives are often added to emulate the slightly salty flavour of soda water developed years ago from first use them as preservatives. Naturally occurring processes also produce carbonated mineral water carbonated water similar to artesian wells, as in Mihalkovo in the Bulgarian Rhodope Mountains, in Medzitlija in Macedonia, or most especially in Selters in the German Taunus mountains.

Social popularity, decline and renaissance

Carbonated water changed the way people drank. Instead of drinking liquor straight / nothing (without the mixer), soda water and carbonated soft drinks mixed with alcohol are a drink made with more social acceptance. Whisky and spirits can be seen, in many British TV series, and movies from the 1960s and earlier, Soda syphon is ubiquitous in many films made before 1970. Only a small amount of soda water is, added; a 'splash' and 'Scotch and a splash' was a standard bar order. Whisky and soda were usually drunk without ice in the United Kingdom.

Social drinking has changed with the counter-culture movement of the 1970s, and the advent of new bottles and canned Beverages in the 1980s and soda water has declined in popularity. Soda syphons are still bought by the more traditional bar trade and are available at bars in many upmarket areas, but in the UK there are now only two distributors of soda water in conventional glass syphons and an estimated market of approximate 120,000 syphons per year (2009). Worldwide, preferences for Beverages in recyclable plastic containers.

Home syphons soda and soda water are enjoying a renaissance in the 21st century as retro items in the mode. Contemporary soda syphons are made of aluminium, although glass and stainless steel syphons are available. The valve-heads of today are, made of plastic, with metal valves, and replacement O-ring seals. Older, syphons are in question about online auction sites. Carbonated water, without the acidity regulating adding soda, is currently seen as fashionable although home production is mainly eschewed, in favour of the commercial products.

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