Diet Coke And Mentos Or Coke And Mentos

Slowly and carefully open a new bottle of diet coke.

Diet coke and mentos or coke and mentos. 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. In the diet coke bottle the mentos candy provides a rough surface that allows the bonds between the carbon dioxide gas and water to break more easily helping to create carbon dioxide bubbles. 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.

Put the open end of your tube of mentos on the card and place it directly over the opening of the soda bottle. 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. The reaction is so intense you can make a rocket propelled by.

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. Place it on a flat area outside where it is ok to get wet with soda. Combine diet coke and mentos and the result is explosive diet coke shoots out of the bottle like a miniature sticky old faithful.

We did one experiment with fruit mentos and one experiment with mint mentos for each kind of coke diet coke caffeine free diet coke and coke zero my dad took a pictures of the explosions.