Diet Soda Float Or Sink

Do soda cans sink or float.

Diet soda float or sink. Regular pop is more dense than water therefore it sinks. The diet coke will float at the top and the coca cola will sink to the bottom. The difference in the amount of dissolved sweeteners leads to a difference in density.

This is called displacement. In high school my physics teacher took two cans of soda from a vending machine. The diet soda floats because the small amount of sweetener isn t enough the make.

Diet pop is less dense than water and weighs less than the water it displaces this causes it to float. In short the density of the diet soda is less than 1 gram per cubic centimeter so it will float. The diet sodafloats because the small amount of sweetener isn t enough the make.

Cans of regular soda tend to be more dense than water so they sink. The artificial sweetener used in diet coke is hundreds of times sweeter per unit volume than regular sugar. The difference between the amount of sugar used in regular pop and sweetener used in diet causes a significant difference in the density of the liquids.

Diet sodas on the other hand use artificial sweeteners such as aspartame. Cans of diet soda are usually less dense than water so they float. Have the student child fill the bucket container with water.

Soda cans are filled with water carbonation sweetener and very minute amounts of other things like dye and flavoring. Why do cans of diet coke float while regular coke sinks. The density of the regular soda is greater than 1 gram per cubic centimeter so it sinks.