Diet Pepsi And Mentos

Place one bottle of diet coke in the refrigerator and let it sit overnight.

Diet pepsi and mentos. 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. One roll of mentos candies. Remove the lid from the diet coke and set it the bottle of soda on a flat surface. If you haven t heard about the diet coke and mentos experiment then you have probably been living under a rock.

Me and ian showing u how to make a pepsi and mentos rocket plz turn up ur speakers. Roll the paper into a tube around a pack of mentos mints tape it into place and pull it off of the roll of mints. Lee marek and marek s kid scientists were the first to publicly demonstrate the experiment on the late show with david letterman in 1999. Place the second bottle in a place where it can reach room temperature overnight.

Put the open end of your tube of mentos on the card and place it directly over the opening of the soda bottle. Slowly and carefully open a new bottle of diet coke. Dropping mentos into a bottle of diet soda causes a physical reaction. An index card picture below the mentos and coke volcano experiment.

It needs to be wide enough to use as loader for the mentos. Open the bottle of soda and attach the geyser tube. After you have experimented with one diet soda try the experiment with different types of soda to see which ones has the most intense reaction. Usually the trick is done using diet soda especially diet coke or another cola however the main reason for this is because diet drinks are less sticky easier to clean up than other sodas.

A two liter bottle of diet soda diet soda makes for a much better reaction but you can use regular soda if you like. It just won t be nearly as awesome a tube the width of the mentos. 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. A big ass explosion happens pretty damn coo.

Place it on a flat area outside where it is ok to get wet with soda. Snap a photo as the soda erupts. Steve spangler s televised demonstration of the eruption. Stand back and pull the release string on the geyser tube to release the mentos.

You ll want to purchase three bottles of diet coke and two rolls of mentos. How do you make pepsi explode with mentos. By closing the lid or lightly pushing a cork into the neck after adding mentos to a bottle of diet soda you trap that gas creating pressure.