Diet Coke And Mentos In Car

Place the mentos cartridge sticky tape side up into the soda cap and press down to fasten it there.

Diet coke and mentos in car. Want to see this video in 3. Put the cap on a flat surface with its inside facing upwards. It just won t be nearly as awesome a tube the width of the mentos.

One roll of mentos candies. Don t try this without professional help. Put some wheels beneath it and you have a rocket car.

We can use a variety of methods to create pressurized gas the following activity uses mentos and diet coke. What you need 1 x bottle of cola diet cola works best 1 x bottle of lemonade or any other soda 1 x packet of mint mentos an outdoor area you can hose down afterwards. Can you harness that explosive reaction or will you just end up having a soda shower.

A two liter bottle of diet soda diet soda makes for a much better reaction but you can use regular soda if you like. Be careful not to press too hard as you don t want any mentos falling out of the cartridge. When it s poured into a glass the carbon dioxide molecules separate from the water by forming bubbles a process called nucleation and escaping into the air.

Fasten the mentos cartridge into the bottom of the diet coke cap. Famous diet coke and mentos video recreated after 10 years with glorious results august 27 a nsw man wants coke to pay for 4000 in damages after a coke can exploded in his hot car. Lee marek and marek s kid scientists were the first to publicly demonstrate the experiment on the late show with david letterman in 1999.

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. An index card picture below the mentos and coke volcano experiment. It needs to be wide enough to use as loader for the mentos.