Diet Coke And Mentos Car

Place the mentos cartridge sticky tape side up into the soda cap and press down to fasten it there.

Diet coke and mentos car. When the mentos drop into the soda the pressure tries to push the rod out of the tube. One roll of mentos candies. Fasten the mentos cartridge into the bottom of the diet coke cap.

Barney challenged me to get a car moving using only the explosion from the coke and mentos experiment. How does this work. The video took off with over 11 million views to date.

So all the force is directed into moving the coke zero mentos rocket car forward. We can use a variety of methods to create pressurized gas the following activity uses mentos and diet coke. All that power is pushing against a wall braced with 3 600 pounds of cement blocks.

Famous diet coke and mentos video recreated after 10 years with glorious results august 27 a nsw man wants coke to pay for 4000 in damages after a coke can exploded in his hot car. With 108 rods all pushing at once that gives us a lot of power. A six foot long rod sits inside a six foot long tube attached to each bottle of coke zero.

The big rocket car powered by 648 mentos and 108 bottles of coke zero carried fritz 221 feet and carried david letterman 364 feet but to be fair he was going downhill a bit. Put the cap on a flat surface with its inside facing upwards. Mentos and soda rocket fuel soda is fizzy because it contains molecules of carbon dioxide co 2.

An index card picture below the mentos and coke volcano experiment. Don t try this without professional help. Extreme mentos diet coke was a video of the guys creating a replica of the bellagio fountain using only diet coke and mentos.