Diet Soda Float In Water
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Why do peanuts float in a regular coke and sink in a diet coke.
Diet soda float in water. Make sure that no air bubbles are trapped under the can when you place it in the water. So if this is the case then unless it s diet soda because they can is empty and you can actually drink any of it i guess. In short the density of the diet soda is less than 1 gram per cubic centimeter so it will float.
This is not the first time we have covered density in science course with ryan morse. The artificial sweetener used in diet coke is hundreds of times sweeter per unit volume than regular sugar. When it comes to floating on water low density is the name of the game.
Coke has about 11 teaspoons of sugar in each can which are taken up by water in the diet coke can. Why does one can sink and the other can float. In soda water the bubbles attach to the peanuts and the overall density of this combination is less than water so they float.
To further prove this theory regarding mass and density we weighed the cans and the diet pop weighed an average of 20 grams less than the regular pop. While that wouldn t make for much of a showy experiment because nobody would expect the life jacket to sink and the rock to float after all you can perform a pretty nifty density experiment with two cans of soda. Rocks have a high density and sink the foam in life jackets has a low density and it floats.
In high school my physics teacher took two cans of soda from a vending machine plopped them in an aquarium filled with tap water and blew our minds. Does it sink or float. In how to make.
The diet coke can floated to the top while. Repeat the experiment with a can of diet soda. All of the diet sodas will float simply because they are less dense than the water they are in.