Diet Coke And Mentos Challenge
A bottle of soda is full of carbon dioxide the bubbles.
Diet coke and mentos challenge. It needs to be wide enough to use as loader for the mentos. An index card picture below the mentos and coke volcano experiment. A diet coke and mentos eruption also known as a soda geyser is a reaction between the carbonated beverage diet coke and mentos mints that causes the beverage to spray out of its container. We tried it with cola and lemonade.
It just won t be nearly as awesome a tube the width of the mentos. Brothers test and try this crazy incredible how to science soda trick. I tried the experiments myself in. So i thought to myself what happens if i add mentos and baking soda to.
It worked with both but the diet soda produced a bigger reaction. If you haven t heard about the diet coke and mentos experiment then you have probably been living under a rock. I am sure that all you guys have seen what happens when you add mentos or baking soda to diet coke. Why is it so.
Here is one abridged version. A big ass explosion happens pretty damn cool. Diet coke and mentos rocket challenge. In this diy experiment i take the diet coke and mentos challenge to the extreme by exploding a giant wubble bubble bath pool.
As they fall through the soda the mentos candies break the bonds between the carbon dioxide and water the combination that makes soda fizzy releasing the carbon dioxide gas up and out of the bottle. In the diet coke bottle the mentos candy provides a rough surface that allows the bonds between the carbon dioxide gas and water to break more easily helping to create carbon dioxide bubbles. 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. One roll of mentos candies.
Dropping mentos into a bottle of diet soda causes a physical reaction. We also tried it with coloured mentos and mint mentos. There are many explanations for this phenomenon.