Diet Coke And Fruit Mentos

Step 1 buy 1 2 liter bottle of diet coke.

Diet coke and fruit mentos. Theories abound as to why this happens. Steve spangler s televised demonstration of the eruption. When mint or fruit mentos are dropped into a fresh bottle of diet coke a jet of coke whooshes out of the bottle s mouth and can reach a height of 10 metres.

A diet coke and mentos eruption is a reaction between the carbonated beverage diet coke and mentos mints that causes the beverage to spray out of its container. A two liter bottle of diet soda diet soda makes for a much better reaction but you can use regular soda if you like. An index card picture below the mentos and coke volcano experiment.

It needs to be wide enough to use as loader for the mentos. 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. When mint or fruit mentos are dropped into a fresh bottle of diet coke a jet of coke whooshes out of the bottle s mouth and can reach a height of 10 metres.

For the purposes of this example we re using diet coke but you can actually use any type of diet soda as long as it contains aspartame. Lee marek and marek s kid scientists were the first to publicly demonstrate the experiment on the late show with david letterman in 1999. One roll of mentos candies.

It just won t be nearly as awesome a tube the width of the mentos.