What Happens When You Combine Diet Coke And Mentos

Over one hundred jets of soda fly into the air in less than three minutes.

What happens when you combine diet coke and mentos. A two liter bottle of diet soda diet soda makes for a much better reaction but you can use regular soda if you like. Steve spangler s televised demonstration of the eruption. As this is the reaction based on carbon dioxide gas.

The reaction is so intense you can make a rocket propelled by. After all it s well known that dropping mentos into a bottle of diet coke will cause a sudden geyser of soda foam to erupt. Lee marek and marek s kid scientists were the first to publicly demonstrate the experiment on the late show with david letterman in 1999.

You ll suddenly experience an upsurge of soda foam and will likely burp or vomit up large amounts of the stuff in seconds. It forms up shoots out of the bottle. An index card picture below the mentos and coke volcano experiment.

When you drop mentos into the soda then all the carbon dioxide bubbles comes out of the soda all at once. Combine diet coke and mentos and the result is explosive diet coke shoots out of the bottle like a miniature sticky old faithful. All those mentos in a lot of soda make a lot of bubbles that rise to the surface and push the soda out in a big woosh.

It s amazing and completely insane. We are looking the different factors affecting the way that soda explodes. Diet coke and mentos experiment.

What happens when you combine 200 liters of diet coke and over 500 mentos mints. The first part of this video demonstrates a simple geyser and the second part shows just how extreme it can get. You can combine this with your favorite dry ice demonstration.