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It's simple. Just take a 2-liter of coke (Diet Coke works better) and stick as many mentos in it as you want. (one will still work)
You need at least 1. And, it depends what kind of pop you are using. Diet coke produces the best results because it has the most Carbon Dioxide gas in it, and that means that the rough surface and the pores on the Mentos candies will get filled up with the Diet Coke carbon dioxide gas. Right after Diet Coke comes Pepsi, and on and on.
Yes the more you put the better. It also works best with diet coke.
one you will need coke
Mentos look like their real smooth, but really they have lots of little small imperfections all over the surface. If you look at a glass of coke at any stage you can see the bubbles rising through it, if you put your finger into the coke you can see that bubbbles will form all over your finger. This is the carbon dioxide escaping from the coke. By putting a mentos in there all those little imperfections that are on the surface of it allow all the carbon dioxide to come out of solution, because there are so many little voids etc.. the mentos pulls a lot of carbon dioxide out fast and that's why the bottle of coke fizz's up.
the caffeine, potassium benzoate, aspartame, and CO2 gas contained in the Diet Coke, in combination with the gelatin and gum Arabic ingredients of the Mentos, all contribute to the jet effect (Coke also works, but is less effective because there is no aspartame). The physical structure of the Mentos is the most significant cause of the eruption due to nucleation. The surface of the mint Mentos is littered with many small holes, allowing CO2 bubbles to form very rapidly and in great quantity, in turn causing the jet of foam.
You don't really have to *wait* but if you want to be at the safest point wait a minute or so you should be fine, but the shortest time is 10 seconds but you'll feel small reaction. If you CHUG diet coke you probably WILL feel it, and might even hurt.
I am not sure but there is cherry coke and diet coke and you can look it up on the coke website.
i really don't know i was looking for the answer because i am doing it at the science fare at my school please help me out its on our last day of school Thursday i am lucky i know people with school on the Monday after
The bubbling action that occurs from dropping a mentos into a diet coke occurs because the high quantities of carbon dioxide held within the soda react with the candy. The candy's shell is actually comprised of many extremely small pits in which the CO2 forms in a process called nucleation. The diet coke has 7 times more CO2 than can be easily dissolved into water at regular atmospheric pressures. Increasing the pressure on the liquid allows it to dissolve more CO2. This CO2, once released from its high pressure tank is trying to escape its watery prison. With the addition of the mentos, the opportunity of a lifetime presents itself, and all of the CO2 escapes the water in a short amount of time often with explosive results. The only difference that could be ascertained would be that the fruit mentos lack the same number of pits available with the mint mentos, resulting in a slower release of CO2, which in turn causes a smaller explosion.
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