Diet Coke Vs Coke Mentos

The number of mentos used.

Diet coke vs coke mentos. The carbon dioxide in the soda comes out of solution very suddenly shooting up into the sky and drenching anyone within range with soda. Other carbonated beverages will also readily respond to the addition of mentos. Place it on a flat area outside where it is ok to get wet with soda.

Adam and jamie explore the science behind the fabled diet coke and mentos phenomenon. Slowly and carefully open a new bottle of diet coke. Put the open end of your tube of mentos on the card and place it directly over the opening of the soda bottle.

Combine diet coke and mentos and the result is explosive diet coke shoots out of the bottle like a miniature sticky old faithful. The reaction is so intense you can make a rocket propelled by. To start it should be noted that it s not just diet coke and mentos that react.

It needs to be wide enough to use as loader for the mentos. One roll of mentos candies. A two liter bottle of diet soda diet soda makes for a much better reaction but you can use regular soda if you like.

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. We experiment with giant coca cola diet coke and mentos in the house. 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.

If you ve ever wondered why diet coke and mentos react so strongly to one another well wonder no more. Does the number of mentos affect the height of the explosion when added to diet coke. It just won t be nearly as awesome a tube the width of the mentos.