Adding pepsi and mentod created a powerful eruption of soda that reaches severl feet high diet pepsi or regular pepsi prouduces the same effect ,but regular soda creates a sticker effect.
The myth is that Mentos plus soda equals an explosion. The truth is the the soda bubbles up and erupts like a volcano, but does not actually explode.
Because they react
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because when mentos is added with car bon dioxide it becomes a chemical reaction and soda has carbon dioxide BUT THE MOST SODA THAT WILL GO 20 FEET WILL BE DIET COKE
If you want mean "I ate some mentos and soda and nothing happened, what's wrong" Then I can tell you nothing is wrong. The recation happens because you are dropping the mentos into the soda (see Why_do_diet_coke_and_mentos_reactfor full details) and the digestion doesn't work like that. Also, the stomach acid won't let the reaction occur.
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because a chemical reaction happens to make it explode
The reaction between Mentos and soda is primarily a physical reaction rather than a chemical one, resulting in an exothermic process. When Mentos are added to soda, the rapid release of carbon dioxide gas creates a vigorous eruption, releasing energy in the form of heat. This is due to the nucleation sites on the surface of the Mentos facilitating the rapid escape of dissolved gas from the liquid.
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there is a large amount of fruit acid in mentos , so when you react it with another acid they will combine and cause a reaction: if you put a mentos in a can of soda it will erupt, explode, ect. like an explosive volcano due to the fact of the acid. Above answer is completely wrong, there are tiny nucleation sites on the mentos where the CO2 of the soda's carbonation turns to real gas and fizzes up through the tiny opening. as a result of all the bubbles, the soda literally is pushed up and out of the bottle into a soda geyser.
Mentos release carbon dioxide (CO2) in soda due to the physical structure of their surface, which is covered in tiny pits and imperfections. When Mentos are added to soda, these surfaces provide nucleation sites where dissolved CO2 bubbles can rapidly form. As the bubbles grow, they rise to the surface, causing a rapid release of gas and resulting in the famous soda geyser effect. This reaction is enhanced by the high sugar content and gelatin in Mentos, which further facilitates bubble formation.
Not much. The chemicals and sugar in Mentos kick all of the carbon dioxide is soda loose at one time- so it foams up in a fountain- but flat soda has already lost most or all of the CO2.