Diet Coke And Mentos Science

Theories abound as to why this happens.

Diet coke and mentos science. Carbon dioxide creates the bubbles in soda. Place it on a flat area outside where it is ok to get wet with 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 thing that makes soda drinks bubbly is the carbon dioxide that is pumped in when they bottle the drink at the factory. The goal of this project is to explore the eruption of carbon dioxide when the candy mentos dissolves in 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.

One roll of mentos candies. It needs to be wide enough to use as loader for the mentos. Although there are a few different theories around about how this experiment works the most favoured reason is because of the combination of carbon dioxide in the diet coke and the little dimples found on mentos candy pieces.

An index card picture below the mentos and coke volcano experiment. It just won t be nearly as awesome a tube the width of the mentos. 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.