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December 26, 2008 At the speed of cork
From Decanter.
“A German scientist has managed to register the speed of a Champagne cork as it leaves the bottle.
Friedrich Balck of Clausthal Technical University in northwest Germany found that a vigorously shaken bottle of Champagne, with a pressure of 2.5 bars, expelled its cork at 40 kilometres per hour (km/h) – 24.8 miles per hour.”
Here’s the university’s website. link
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