Diet Coke And Mentos Bomb

It needs to be wide enough to use as loader for the mentos.

Diet coke and mentos bomb. 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. Cut 2 4 inch 10 2 centimeter strips of masking tape. One roll of mentos candies.

An index card picture below the mentos and coke volcano experiment. Steve spangler s televised demonstration of the eruption. Bring your 2 liter bottle of diet coke your pack of mentos your masking tape and your.

When combined the diet cola and mentos become volatile basting your victim in stickiness. Lee marek and marek s kid scientists were the first to publicly demonstrate the experiment on the late show with david letterman in 1999. After you drop the mint strip covered mentos into the bottle of diet coke nothing will happen but over the time span of 2 to 3 minutes the soda will have eaten away the thin mint strips.

The diet coke and mentos explosion prank is one of those classic pranks that everyone should experience at some point. Making the mentos cartridge 1. Remove 5 to 7 mentos from.

The results showed that diet coke created the most spectacular explosions with either fruit or mint mentos the fountains travelling a horizontal distance of up to 7 metres. A two liter bottle of diet soda diet soda makes for a much better reaction but you can use regular soda if you like. Watch this video to learn how to make a diet coke and mentos bomb a simple yet devious exploding prank.

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