Diet Coke And Mentos Alternatives

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Diet coke and mentos alternatives. Put the open end of your tube of mentos on the card and place it directly over the opening of the soda bottle. All you need for this simple experiment is. The process that creates the coating shell of mentos is what causes the reaction the suface releases co2 and thus all the fizz from the coke rapidly.

A two liter bottle of diet soda diet soda makes for a much better reaction but you can use regular soda if you like. It just won t be nearly as awesome a tube the width of the mentos. There might not be an alternative.

An index card picture below the mentos and coke volcano experiment. Dropping mentos into a bottle of diet soda causes a physical reaction. By closing the lid or lightly pushing a cork into the neck after adding mentos to a bottle of diet soda you trap that gas.

And after watching the mythbusters episode about mentos and a column of fiery bubbles we will be doing the mentos experiment in class. Slowly and carefully open a new bottle of diet coke. Diet sodas produce a bigger reaction than non diet sodas because aspartame lowers the surface tension of the liquid much more than sugar or corn syrup will.

The powerful reaction caused when mentos and coke zero are combined is not chemical but physical. Alternatives to diet coke mentos. When the mentos is dropped into the soda bottles all the pressure it creates tries to push out of the tube generating enough power to give the car a giant push for at least 6 feet.

You can also increase the effect by. A cheap alternative to mentos can you believe there s more to say on the diet coke and mentos story. It needs to be wide enough to use as loader for the mentos.