Eruption With Diet Coke And Mentos

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Eruption with diet coke and mentos. One way to put a unique spin on this experiment is to disguise the soda bottle as a volcano. Place the index card over one end of the tube and invert it. Similarly you could substitute normal soda for diet soda.

Making the mentos and soda erupt first gather your supplies. Erupting diet coke with mentos wax paper cutting board knife one roll of mentos at least eight candies two index cards tape two two liter bottles of diet coke an outdoor area at least two meters from buildings eye protection safety goggles or glasses video. As the mentos candy sinks in the bottle the candy causes the production of more and more carbon dioxide bubbles.

Method slowly open the 2 liter bottle of diet coke. Let the soda warm up to room temperature. You ll get more fizz and a better eruption using warm liquid.

Like most chemical reactions the process occurs more quickly at a warmer temperature. With a little extra effort you can make this experiment artistically appealing as well as technically surprising. Time for the fun part drop the mentos into.

Lee marek and marek s kid scientists were the first to publicly demonstrate the experiment on the late show with david letterman in 1999. Load the paper tube with four mentos. Make sure you are doing this experiment in a place where you won t get in trouble for getting diet coke everywhere.

Put some sort of funnel or tube on top of it so you can drop the mentos. The project will work just as well but the resulting. The reaction is so intense you can make a rocket propelled by.