Materials
- 2 liters of diet coke
- 4 mint flavored mentos
Procedure
1. gather the materials you will need
2. cut a strip of paper about 4 inches
3. take out 5-7 mentos out of the roll
4. Lay the Mentos face-down onto the strip of tape, just as they are lined up in a roll of Mentos.
5. Take another strip of tape the same size as the previous one, and put this one on the top. Leave the sides of the Mentos exposed
6. Take a strip of tape about three inches and roll its sticky side out around your finger to make a roll that is sticky on the outside.
7. Take that and stick it to the top of the Mentos roll
8. Stick that to the bottom of the diet coke cap
9. Make sure that it is secure and then twist the cap back on
10. 10Take the coke and face the cap opposite of where the coke should go. Jump in the air and slam the coke on the ground evenly on its side.
11. STEP BACK AND ENJOY!!!!!
Safty Precautions
- make sure you are outside when you preform the expiriment in a large open area.
- make sure there aren't a lot of people around.
Scientific Principle
*When the mentos are dropped in the bottle of Diet Coke, a large amount of carbon dioxide gas is released in an instant, resulting in an eruption of soda. Diet Coke is supersaturated with carbon dioxide gas. Scratches on the surface of a Mentos mint can serve as nucleation sites, places where the carbon dioxide gas can form bubbles. Since there are so many of these sites on a Mentos, the gas comes out of solution extremely rapidly. The effect is magnified by the fact that a Mentos is denser than Coke. As it sinks, it comes into contact with liquid from the top to the bottom of the bottle. The sudden increase in pressure that results from the rapid release of gas forces the soda out of the bottle.
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photo credit: Alexis Chierici
