What Happens When You Mix Diet Coke And Mentos

Adam and jamie explore the science behind the fabled diet coke and mentos phenomenon.

What happens when you mix diet coke and mentos. Combine diet coke and mentos and the result is explosive diet coke shoots out of the bottle like a miniature sticky old faithful. An index card picture below the mentos and coke volcano experiment. Lee marek and marek s kid scientists were the first to publicly demonstrate the experiment on the late show with david letterman in 1999.

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. When you drop mentos into the soda then all the carbon dioxide bubbles comes out of the soda all at once. 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.

One roll of mentos candies. It forms up shoots out of the bottle. The mentos drops to the bottom of the bottle forming lots and lots of bubbles on its pitted surface along the way.

No one has worked out why. Twitter check out scary taco scary taco. 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.

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. 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. The carbon dioxide molecules attach to the surfaces of the mentos like they did in the cup of soda.

So what happens if you drink coke and eat mentos. Bubbles and soda will quickly shoot out of the bottle in a high fountain. The reaction is so intense you can make a rocket propelled by.