Diet Coke Or Mentos

Lee marek and marek s kid scientists were the first to publicly demonstrate the experiment on the late show with david letterman in 1999.

Diet coke or mentos. Any carbonated beverage works the trick works with any carbonated beverage. An outdoor area you can hose down afterwards. Mentos and diet soda experiment with free lesson plan and printables share with your friends.

It works with regular cola orange soda root beer etc. Usually the trick is done using diet soda especially diet coke or another cola however the main reason for this is because diet drinks are less sticky easier to clean up than other sodas. 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.

An index card picture below the mentos and coke volcano experiment. Steve spangler s televised demonstration of the eruption. Fill an empty.

Combine diet coke and mentos and the result is explosive diet coke shoots out of the bottle like a miniature sticky old faithful. As to why diet sodas like diet coke produce such a bigger reaction it s because aspartame lowers the surface tension of the liquid much more than sugar or corn syrup will. Having fun with it 1.

One roll of mentos candies. 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. Experiment with putting different amounts.

Slowly and carefully open a new bottle of diet coke. Combine mint and fruit mentos in one cartridge. Try different amounts of mentos.