What Mentos make soda explode?

Answer 1

The soda is packed with loads of bubbles that want to get out of the liquid. To do so they need to form bubbles around something like a spec of dirt or a tiny dent in the bottle. That's why you see bubbles forming from the same places in glasses of soda.

A mentos has a very rough surface (on a microscopic scale) so when you put it in all the millions of bubbles suddenly form on the mint creating loads of gas which has to go somewhere. So it blasts out the top of the drinks bottle. It works with any rough surfaced material like chalk, not just mentos.

Answer 2

because of the chemicals in side the soda and the inside the mentos

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Releasing of carbon dioxide and the great volume of pores in mentos.

Answer 3

mentos and soda are not explosive under STP.... so, for future reference, "explode" is not really the right word, but I know what you're talking about.

Answer 4

the mentos have pits in them and they have carbon dioxide in them and it gets realest

Answer 5

It is the chemical reaction that the mentos have when they combine

Answer 6

soda and mentos

Answer 7

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