Diet Coke And Mentos Lab Report

Half a roll in the test tube.

Diet coke and mentos lab report. The experiment described in this lab report were done because the 10th grade class wanted to see the reaction of diet coke when you add mentos to it. We also tried it with coloured mentos and mint mentos. A bottle of soda is full of carbon dioxide the bubbles.

The result is a massive eruption of foam shooting stories high into the air. Slowly and carefully open a new bottle of diet coke. A classic experiment in chemistry is combining a small candy called mentos with diet coke.

A two liter bottle of diet soda diet soda makes for a much better reaction but you can use regular soda if you like. It just won t be nearly as awesome a tube the width of the mentos. Why is it so.

Stack the mentos candies approx. If you increase the number of mentos then the eruption of the coke will get higher until it reaches a number maximum of mentos. Place it on a flat area outside where it is ok to get wet with soda.

Open the soda and place the index card over the bottle opening. 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. Depending upon the number of mentos dropped into the bottle the height of the spray can vary between a few inches and tens of feet.

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. Mentos and diet coke. If we drop four uncoated mint mentos into 2 liter bottles of carbonated water coca cola and diet coke then the artificial sweetener of the diet coke will cause it to produce the highest eruption.