Diet Coke Penny Experiment

The gum arabic coating on the candies reacts with the aspartame in the diet coke resulting in lots of bubbles shooting through the narrow neck of the bottle.

Diet coke penny experiment. The diet coke can contains very little sugar and therefore it floats. I am right in the middle of my science project my experiment is leaving a penny in coke diet coke pepsi twist and cherry coke. Men tos have a rough sur face which aids the for ma tion of a large amount of car bon diox ide gas from the coca cola on its sur face.

Do this experiment with coke vs. I ve left the pennies there for three days and so far the only thing that has happened is that the diet coke has made a corrosion sort of ring around the penny. In this explosive science experiment you simply place some mentos in coke to create a real wow factor.

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Drop in the mentos candies into the diet coke and then get back quickly from the bottle. A fountain of diet coke bubbles will shoot up into the air. A mentos and diet coke science experiment for your kids.

Two ounces of each liquid in the experiment was measured out and poured into the corresponding spice jar. This pack contains details of the mentos and coke experiment and also includes step by step instructions and a prompt card to promote discussion and further exploration amongst your. Make a volcano using baking soda and vinegar.

This happens because of the sugar content in both cans. After one day remove each penny and see which one comes close to matching the shiny current penny. Re peat the ex per i ment in a sec ond fry ing pan us ing diet coke.