Diet Coke Or Regular Coke For Mentos

You needn t taste the results of each trial unless you want to.

Diet coke or regular coke for mentos. Regular coke and mentos duration. Slowly and carefully open a new bottle of diet coke. If you ve ever wondered why diet coke and mentos react so strongly to one another well wonder no more. Usually the trick is done using diet soda especially diet coke or another cola however the main reason for this is because diet drinks are less sticky easier to clean up than other sodas.

In each case try to gauge how high the fountain rises compared to the first one you saw. Other carbonated beverages will also readily respond to the addition of mentos. Using the same number of mentos candies each time repeat the experiment with the chilled diet coke the regular coke the other diet soda and the regular version of that same soda. The carbon dioxide in the soda comes out of solution very suddenly shooting up into the sky and drenching anyone within range with soda.

To start it should be noted that it s not just diet coke and mentos that react.