Have you ever noticed that warms soda loses it's fizz more than cold soda? This is a fundamental physical property of gas solution into liquids.
OK. Asking around a bit more, I was advised to remember Henry's law and after looking up some Henry's law constants for dissolution into water at various temperatures, I see this is generally the case.
But what's still not clear is
how / why it happens, at the molecular level.
At first blush, dissolving non-polar substances in water seems like it would require an input of energy and thus take place more readily at higher temperatures, yes?
I am looking for a fairly deep answer here.