... Every minute that the beer sits in the bottle it's losing comp points. ...
+1. I learned this from the LODO guys: Dalton’s law states that the total pressure in a closed system containing a mixture of gases is equal to the sum of the partial pressures of each of the individual gases.
The gas molecules are so far apart from one another that each acts independently. There is presumably very little oxygen in the head space of a bottle of beer. So the oxygen partial pressure is low. The primary partial pressure in the bottle is from CO2.
The amount of oxygen in open air leads to about 3 psi partial pressure of oxygen outside the bottle.
So, the oxygen partial pressure outside the bottle is higher than the oxygen partial pressure in headspace of the bottle. This net decrease in pressure from outside to inside the bottle leads oxygen to want to get into the bottle.
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