"Stan Horwitz" > wrote in message
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> In article >,

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> > I used to have a handle on life...but it broke off.
>>
>> 1. Glad you're OK.
>> 2. It certainly is strange that there would be enough liquid and/or live
>> culture left in the bottle to create that level of gas.
>> 3. I've heard of this with full bottles but not empty ones.
>> 4. As a possible explanation if you closed the bottle at a very cold time
>> (weather) under a high pressure condition and then your area transitioned to
>> a very low pressure hot time maybe there would be enough difference to cause
>> the bottle to shatter. I do however suspect that based upon the way the class
>> shattered I think there was something wrong with the glass. Maybe it was
>> unduly stressed somehow.
>
> I suspect the bottle had some microorganisms in it and they blossomed
> after the bottle was re-corked. As the microorganisms grew, they
> generated gas, just like yeast does when it gets warm. The gas probably
> built up to a sufficient degree to pop the bottle.

Yep - the pressure had to come from somewhere but where is the question of the
century.

Dimitri