How Diet Coke And Mentos Work

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.

How diet coke and mentos work. The carbon dioxide in the soda. Any carbonated beverage works. The results showed that diet coke created the most spectacular explosions with either fruit or mint mentos the fountains travelling a horizontal distance of up to 7 metres.

All you do is drop a tube of mentos candies into a bottle of soda. Then wrap a 3 inch strip of tape sticky side out around your finger to make a piece of double sided tape. Does the mentos and soda trick work with regular coke.

Coffey and company discovered that the ingredients in the mentos and diet coke and more importantly the structure of the mentos allow carbon dioxide bubbles to form extremely rapidly. Slowly and carefully open a new bottle of diet coke. It works with regular cola orange soda.

Place it on a flat area outside where it is ok to get wet with soda. To make a diet coke and mentos rocket start by sandwiching 5 stacked mentos between 2 4 inch strips of masking tape. Why does it work better with diet sodas.

You want the candies going in the bottle and not falling over the side. The mentos drops to the bottom of the bottle forming lots and lots of bubbles on its pitted surface along the way. The trick works with any carbonated beverage.

Stick one side to the top of your mentos stack and the other to the inside of a diet soda cap. No one has worked out why. When all of this gas is released it forces the liquid up and out of the bottle in a giant whooshing geyser of sticky soda.