Diet Coke Or Coke With Mentos

Slowly and carefully open a new bottle of diet coke.

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

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. So what happens if you drink coke and eat mentos. Read more about mentos and diet soda experiment with free lesson plan and printables.

One roll of mentos candies. I think that the number of mentos will affect the height of the explosion because there are more physical reactions happening. Place it on a flat area outside where it is ok to get wet with soda.

Read the experiment below or scroll allllll the way to. 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. The carbon dioxide in the soda comes out of solution very suddenly shooting up into the sky and drenching anyone within range with soda.

It needs to be wide enough to use as loader for the mentos. You ll suddenly experience an upsurge of soda foam and will likely burp or vomit up large amounts of the stuff in seconds. Combine diet coke and mentos and the result is explosive diet coke shoots out of the bottle like a miniature sticky old faithful.

Does the number of mentos affect the height of the explosion when added to diet coke. 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. If you crush the mentos so it doesn t sink much at all you won t get nearly the dramatic reaction.