Diet Coke And Mentos Bottle Rocket

Steve spangler s televised demonstration of the eruption.

Diet coke and mentos bottle rocket. 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 popular and effective. My brother dad and i made this video to show how we make our rockets.

Put the mentos in the pouch and roll the napkin with the mentos into a tube shape. We can use a variety of methods to create pressurized gas the following activity uses mentos and diet coke. Shake it so that the mentos fall into the diet coke and then keep shaking.

We all agreed that this is the best method to do it. Hope you enjoyed make sure to like share comment and subscribe. I realized that the thing i poin.

Loading and launching the rocket 1. 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. Lee marek and marek s kid scientists were the first to publicly demonstrate the experiment on the late show with david letterman in 1999.

Keep the napkin mentos tube stuck tightly in the top of the bottle. When it s poured into a glass the carbon dioxide molecules separate from the water by forming bubbles a process called nucleation and escaping into the air. The cap should be securely on the bottle but not closed too.

Do this for at least a. Twist the loaded cap on to the diet coke bottle. Mentos and soda rocket fuel soda is fizzy because it contains molecules of carbon dioxide co 2.