Monday, June 8, 2015

Diet Coke and Mentos Experiment


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This is the diet coke and mentos experiment. I recommend doing this outside as it get REAL MESSY!!!!

What you will need
-Diet Coke
-Mentos

What you need to do
- go in you garden or somewhere outside because this experiment get really messy
-get your diet coke then take of the cap and put 2 to 5 mentos in the bottle
-when you put the mentos in quickly get far away if you don´t want to get wet!
-KABOOM KAPOW the bottle will go crazy!!!



Although there are a few different theories around about how this experiment works, the most favoured reason is because of the combination of carbon dioxide in the Diet Coke and the little dimples found on Mentos candy pieces.
The thing that makes soda drinks bubbly is the carbon dioxide that is pumped in when they bottle the drink at the factory. It doesn't get released from the liquid until you pour it into a glass and drink it, some also gets released when you open the lid (more if you shake it up beforehand). This means that there is a whole lot of carbon dioxide gas just waiting to escape the liquid in the form of bubbles.
Dropping something into the Diet Coke speeds up this process by both breaking the surface tension of the liquid and also allowing bubbles to form on the surface area of the Mentos. Mentos candy pieces are covered in tiny dimples (a bit like a golf ball), which dramatically increases the surface area and allows a huge amount of bubbles to form.
The experiment works better with Diet Coke than other sodas due to its slightly different ingredients and the fact that it isn't so sticky. I also found that Diet Coke that had been bottled more recently worked better than older bottles that might have lost some of their fizz sitting on shop shelves for too long, just check the bottle for the date.

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