Shasta Diet Coke And Mentos

By closing the lid or lightly pushing a cork into the neck after adding mentos to a bottle of diet soda you trap that gas.

Shasta diet coke and mentos. As they fall through the soda the mentos candies break the bonds between the carbon dioxide and water the combination that makes soda fizzy releasing the carbon dioxide gas up and out of the bottle. I think that the number of mentos will affect the height of the explosion because there are more physical reactions happening. The candies catalyze the release of gas from the beverage which creates an eruption that pushes most of the liquid up and out of the bottle. The number of mentos used.

An index card picture below the mentos and coke volcano experiment. A two liter bottle of diet soda diet soda makes for a much better reaction but you can use regular soda if you like. Does the number of mentos affect the height of the explosion when added to diet coke. When you combine a mento with the diet coke you ll create a sod.

Here s a pretty cool experiment you can do with a bottle of diet coke and a packet of mentos. Height of the explosion. A diet coke and mentos eruption also known as a soda geyser is a reaction between the carbonated beverage diet coke and mentos mints that causes the beverage to spray out of its container. It needs to be wide enough to use as loader for the mentos.

Put the open end of your tube of mentos on the card and place it directly over the opening of the soda bottle. The diet coke and mentos reaction is a popular experi ment or demonstration in part because it inspires students to wonder and inquiry driven labs and active learning demon strations on this reaction have been implemented 3 i recently led a large group of undergraduate physics students in a co. Place it on a flat area outside where it is ok to get wet with soda. The reaction is so intense you can make a rocket propelled by.

While science teachers have been dropping candies and mints into 2 liter bottles of soda for years in an effort to release all of the dissolved carbon dioxide the mentos and diet coke reaction became world famous in 2005. It just won t be nearly as awesome a tube the width of the mentos. Dropping mentos into a bottle of diet soda causes a physical reaction. Combine diet coke and mentos and the result is explosive diet coke shoots out of the bottle like a miniature sticky old faithful.