Diet Coke And Mentos In A Cup

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

Diet coke and mentos in a cup. Put the open end of your tube of mentos on the card and place it directly over the opening of the soda bottle. 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. 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.

Watch as ssundee becomes a man child again and jump in a bath full of diet coke. Steve spangler s televised demonstration of the eruption. What you need 1 x bottle of cola diet cola works best 1 x bottle of lemonade or any other soda 1 x packet of mint mentos an outdoor area you can hose down afterwards.

If u simply put a mentos in a cup of diet coke nothing will happen. Watch my newest video. When will he grow u.

Mentos are the candy of choice because their surface is very porous and ideal for creating lots and lots of carbon dioxide bubbles. Https youtu be zzfka1 x2ta what happens when you put diet coke and mentos inside a wubble bubble. And then drops a cup full of mentos in there with him.

Second the mentos must be thrown in the bottle with the cap tightly shut so that the pressure does not escape from 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. Place it on a flat area outside where it is ok to get wet with soda.

Any soda will work but the aspartame in diet sodas produce a bigger reaction because it lowers the surface tension of the soda.