Diet Coke And Mentos Fountain Show

In the 1990s the size of the mint candies was increased so they no longer fit in soda bottle mouths.

Diet coke and mentos fountain show. It s amazing and completely insane. 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. Originally the geyser was made by dropping wint o green life savers into a soft drink.

Lee marek and marek s kid scientists were the first to publicly demonstrate the experiment on the late show with david letterman in 1999. Steve spangler s televised demonstration of the eruption. Diet coke and mentos well that was interesting.

It s one of the most popular science demonstrations. Fritz stephen the mad scientists from eepybird take it even further with over 250 geysers of soda. Put the open end of your tube of mentos on the card and place it directly over the opening of the soda bottle.

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. Place it on a flat area outside where it is ok to get wet with soda. And this time they re linked together in one giant c.

The diet coke and mentos eruption is a classic science demonstration. The first part of this video demonstrate. The project is also known as the mentos and soda fountain or the soda geyser.

Slowly and carefully open a new bottle of diet coke. Pop a handful of mentos candies into a bottle of coke and a fountain of bubbles rapidly spurts from the open bottle often over a metre into the air. 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.