Diet Coke And Mentos Experiment Results

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Diet coke and mentos experiment results. The eepybirds later recreated this experiment in a spectacular multi bottle show on david letterman. Mentos in coke experiment. I saw it on tv and i bought mentos and a 2 liter bottle of diet coke.

It s a simple science experiment that your kids will go nuts for. So i m going to go with mentos. It just won t be nearly as awesome a tube the width of the mentos.

In the diet coke bottle the mentos candy provides a rough surface that allows the bonds between the carbon dioxide gas and water to break more easily helping to create carbon dioxide bubbles. The diet coke geyser height was increased from trial 1 to trial 4. Steph wu july 03 2017.

One roll of mentos candies. You can learn a lot more about our findings by checking out our article published in the journal of chemical education or this infographic on the compound interest site. 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.

The number of mentos increased by one each trial. It needs to be wide enough to use as loader for the mentos. After trial 4 it decreased from trial 4 to trial 5.

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. It was increased by 0 5 feet from trial 1 to trial 3 then it increased by one foot from trial 3 to trial 4. After trial 5 trial 6 and 7 had the same height.