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I just read an article about the hazards of the keyless feature on new cars (https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/13/...less-cars-and-their-carbon-monoxide-toll.html). Apparently, it can be easy to not know a car is still running in the garage even though one might think that the car must be not running because the key fob is on the person after going into the house. Therefore, there have been deaths due to carbon monoxide poisoning. One thing noted in that article was that soda cans can explode in the presence of carbon monoxide. I don't understand what physics are at hand that would cause that to occur. For the cans to explode, the pressure inside must be larger than the pressure outside the cans. If the pressure outside the cans is lower than normal, would not the garage implode before the cans explode or at least cause air to infiltrate the garage instead of imploding? Can anyone explain it to me?
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