Talk:Soda siphon

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Question

Is it really a siphon? Rojomoke (talk) 11:25, 21 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

It functions the same as a siphon bottle and is similar to a gasogene, so without looking I'll say yes.Atypicaloracle (talk) 14:58, 27 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

It is still available in New York City. The times article was about one vendor. There are others.
http://www.newyorkbeverage.com/merchant/index.cfm?section=rsd&categoryid=19 —Preceding unsigned comment added by Joel33333 (talk • contribs) 17:59, 26 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]
I can confirm that Seltzer siphon delivery service is still regularly available in New York City. I get a crate every two weeks from the vendor in this article: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/28/nyregion/the-seltzer-man-is-still-bubbly-after-all-these-years.html — Preceding unsigned comment added by 128.238.155.42 (talk) 15:10, 5 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]
There are also deliveries offered in some NY tri-state area suburbs, such as this company: http://www.joybeverage.com/index.php
I think someone should edit the article to reflect this

Cinematic role

The seltzer bottles of Mack Sennett and Marx Brothers comedy, and probably live vaudeville, deserve mention in the accompanying article. They were a stock prop used as a harmless but appealingly undignified "weapon" for scenes of disorderly conduct and slapstick hi-jinks.
--Jerzy•t 11:54, 4 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

I agree; that's my first association with them. Here's a cite that I find relevant, from The Funny Parts: A History of Film Comedy Routines and Gags, by Anthony Balducci (McFarland, 2011, page 9):

Seltzer bottles figured prominently into film comedy at an early stage. The Edison comedy Getting Evidence (1906) features a scene in a restaurant where a customer, irritated by an inept waiter, sprays the waiter in the face with seltzer.

Mack Sennett introduced a number of seltzer-bottle episodes into his comedies. A slapstick seltzer bottle could even occur during a funeral, as proven by the Keystone comedy Among the Mourners (1914). — Preceding unsigned comment added by TypoBoy (talk • contribs) 13:30, 10 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Seltzer, mineral, soda, carbonated water equivalence

Carbonated water implies no more than trace mineral found in spring/glacier/tap water.

While soda water/mineral water is naturally alkaline it tempers the carbonic acid when carbonated as usually sold.

Where does Seltzer water fit in, is it a trade name that signifies carbonated soda or carbonated tap water?

Can carbonating plain water result in Seltzer water or does one need to carbonate mineral water to achieve an equivalent product?

Or is it even possible to prepare Seltzer water without either their machine or consumables?

There should be clarity on these terms in this article if possible.

Idyllic press (talk) 22:31, 12 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Bad info about seltzer in the US currently

This article is in error. The source it cites to claim that seltzer in the US is caput was just an article about a single seltzer delivery man having an accident. Brooklyn seltzer boys (Gomberg) is still in business and filled seltzer bottles are still delivered in NY to residences and businesses. Don't article authors read their own sources? Simple stuff like this where authors don't even bother to comprehend their own sources is what will make Wikipedia totally useless. You can get seltzer in the US right now.2600:1700:6D90:79B0:90D4:80DA:E4B3:8026 (talk) 11:02, 23 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

There is actually other seltzer businesses in the US operating if people did a bit more digging, but it seems that Gomberg in Brooklyn seems to get all the media attention, I can safely assume they are more than likely the largest remaining operator in the US however. The UK was also overlooked in this article and have recently added info about the remaining manufacturer of not only the bottles themselves but also as the bottler that is knows as Adcocks.§ — Preceding unsigned comment added by Nzoomed (talk • contribs) 23:45, 31 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Spontaneous Catastrophic Failure

Orowan (OROWAN, E. The Fatigue of Glass Under Stress. Nature 154, 341–343 (1944). https://doi.org/10.1038/154341a0) described the sudden failure of glass under prolonged stress using Griffith crack theory and possible concomitant effects due to adsorption of airborne contaminants within the crack.

Why do I mention this? Because cases of spontaneous failure of Seltzer bottles are not unknown. I participated in the forensic analysis of a seltzer bottle failure (circa 1984) that resulted in serious injury. The successful lawsuit against the company hinged on our proof that the failure originated at a very small crack on the shoulder of the bottle that showed beach marks (as seen here: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/333927610/figure/fig5/AS:772227519758347@1561124796624/Typical-beach-marks-observed-in-ref-76-Reprinted-from-Materials-Science-and.png) propagating from an initiating sub-critical flaw that we were able to attribute to a particular step in the refilling process.

The sale of refillable seltzer bottles was almost entirely halted based on our findings. No manufacturer was willing to risk certain ruin should a similar incident occur. Clearly the passage of time has faded memories, and we may look forward to another similar event. King of Pwnt (talk) 17:53, 9 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]