"Sheldon" > wrote in message
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> jmcquown wrote:
> > I never thought such a thing would be possible but I just had an
explosion
> > in my kitchen. There are glass shards everywhere! I had an empty
bottle of
> > merlot from last week, sitting, corked, waiting to be taken out to the
trash
> > and it EXPLODED. Apparently this thing built up gasses or something
because
> > I'd put the cork back in the empty bottle. It looks like a terrorist
just
> > visited my kitchen. Don't put corks back in empty wine bottles unless
you
> > intend to take them out to be disposed of immediately.
> >
> > This has been a public service announcement from someone who just cut
her
> > hand on broken wine bottle glass and now has to vacuum the kitchen
floor.
>
> It's good you're okay but what you describe is an oddity (very strange

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> Even laboratorys use corks
> rather than screw tops, so the cork will pop out before the bottle
> bursts.

Do you think, if it was one of those newfangled rubberish corks, it could
have prevented the pressure from being released?