Diet Coke And Mentos Gum
Coke and mentos gum c mixed together.
Diet coke and mentos gum. Stick one side to the top of your mentos stack and the other to the inside of a diet soda cap. Theories abound as to why this happens with some bloggers speculating that it is an acid base reaction because coke is acidic. Steve spangler s televised demonstration of the eruption.
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. Combine diet coke and mentos and the result is explosive diet coke shoots out of the bottle like a miniature sticky old faithful. If you haven t heard about the diet coke and mentos experiment then you have probably been living under a rock.
Used 2 people tyler who is seen and cole who is camara man 1 two liter bottle of coca cola and 4 mentos chewing gum. Lee marek and marek s kid scientists were the first to publicly demonstrate the experiment on the late show with david letterman in 1999. To make a diet coke and mentos rocket start by sandwiching 5 stacked mentos between 2 4 inch strips of masking tape.
Depending upon the number of mentos dropped into the bottle the spray height can vary between a few inches and tens of feet. When mint or fruit mentos are dropped into a fresh bottle of diet coke a jet of coke whooshes out of the bottle s mouth and can reach a height of 10 metres. The popular diet coke and mentos reaction occurs when new mentos are dropped into a fresh bottle of diet coke and results in a jet of diet coke spray shooting out of the mouth of the 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. A two liter bottle of diet soda diet soda makes for a much better reaction but you can use regular soda if you like. An index card picture below the mentos and coke volcano experiment.
Mass each mento and each piece of gum on the balance. Go outside with bottles of soda and candy. Then wrap a 3 inch strip of tape sticky side out around your finger to make a piece of double sided tape.