Diet Coke And Mentos Eruption

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Diet coke and mentos eruption. Load the paper tube with four mentos. Fueled by hundreds of blogs and popular online sharing sites like youtube this once obscure reaction became an internet. Place the index card over one end of the tube and invert it.

Combine diet coke and mentos and the result is explosive diet coke shoots out of the bottle like a miniature sticky old faithful. While science teachers have been dropping candies and mints into 2 liter bottles of soda for years in an effort to release all of the dissolved carbon dioxide the mentos and diet coke reaction became world famous in 2005. Put some sort of funnel or tube on top of it so you can drop the mentos.

This rough surface allows the bonds between the carbon dioxide gas and the water to more easily break helping create carbon dioxide bubbles and cause the classic mentos and diet coke eruption. Make sure you are doing this experiment in a place where you won t get in trouble for getting diet coke everywhere. With a little extra effort you can make this experiment artistically appealing as well as technically surprising.

The reaction is so intense you can make a rocket propelled by. Similarly you could substitute normal soda for diet soda. Dropping mentos in diet coke has become a viral phenomenon from popular youtube videos to elementary school science classrooms.

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. 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. As the mentos candy sinks in the bottle the candy causes the production of more and more carbon dioxide bubbles.

One way to put a unique spin on this experiment is to disguise the soda bottle as a volcano. First you need to stack. Time for the fun part drop the mentos into.