Diet Pepsi And Mentos Rocket

To make a diet coke and mentos rocket start by sandwiching 5 stacked mentos between 2 4 inch strips of masking tape.

Diet pepsi and mentos rocket. Mentos and soda rocket fuel soda is fizzy because it contains molecules of carbon dioxide co 2. I repeated the experiment using three pieces of mentos candy three times and lastly i did the experiment three times with six pieces of mentos candy. Steve spangler s televised demonstration of the eruption. 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.

It s been called the vinegar and baking soda reaction for a new generation. Then wrap a 3 inch strip of tape sticky side out around your finger to make a piece of double sided tape. The carbon dioxide in the soda comes out of solution very suddenly shooting up into the sky and drenching anyone within range with soda. Avoid the temptation to chop the mentos up.

I did the experiment with one mentos candy piece in a two liter bottle of diet coke three times and recorded the data. 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. We can use a variety of methods to create pressurized gas the following activity uses mentos and diet coke. And when you channel this release just right you can create your very own projectile in the form of a soda and mentos bottle rocket.

Put some wheels beneath it and you have a rocket car. Lee marek and marek s kid scientists were the first to publicly demonstrate the experiment on the late show with david letterman in 1999. Adding mentos to regular coke or other regular sodas will also cause an explosion but diet soda seems to be the best. While science teachers have been dropping candies and mints into 2 liter bottles of soda for years in an effort to release all of the dissolved carbon dioxide the mentos and diet coke reaction became world famous in 2005.

The height of the explosion of soda is shown for each trial. Justin attempts diet pepsi rocket fail. When you drop a handful of mentos candies into a bottle of diet soda you are breaking the carbon dioxide and water bonds in a very speedy way thus resulting in a quick and explosive release of carbon dioxide gas. Stick one side to the top of your mentos stack and the other to the inside of a diet soda cap.