What type of coke reacts best with Mentos?
What type of coke reacts best with Mentos?
Diet Coke
Diet Coke and Coke Zero react better with Mentos than regular Coke does because of the absence of sugar. A lack of sugar makes the soda mixture less viscous, given the presence of sweeteners, like aspartame, lowering the surface tension even more than usual.
What in Mentos reacts with Coke?
The carbon dioxide molecules attach to the surfaces of the Mentos like they did in the cup of soda. All those Mentos in a lot of soda make a lot of bubbles that rise to the surface and push the soda out in a big woosh!
What science experiments can you do with Coke?
Step-by-step instructions
- Diet Coke and Mentos eruption. Toss a Mento into a bottle of Diet Coke.
- Coca-Cola and milk. Pour 50 mL Coca-Cola into 30 mL milk.
- Coca-Cola and rust. Let a rusty tool sit in 150 mL Coca-Cola for 5 hours.
- Cola and bleach.
- How much sugar does Cola contain?
Will fruit Mentos work with Coke?
The mint Mentos mixed with diet coke usually explodes the longer and higher while fruit Mentos has a more delayed and less impressive reaction. This is because fruity Mentos have an extra coating of flavor which slows down the reaction time.
Does lemonade react with Mentos?
The lemonade will fizz away for a while and then, once all the carbon dioxide has come out, go flat. The mentos just speed this up – instead of the bubbles coming out over a few hours it all comes out in a few seconds!
What flavor of Mentos affect the explosion?
The mint Mentos mixed with diet coke usually explodes the longer and higher while fruit Mentos has a more delayed and less impressive reaction.
How do you make the best Mentos and Coke explosion?
Step 1: Remove the lid from the Diet Coke and set it the bottle of soda on a flat surface.
- Step 2: Roll the paper into a tube around a pack of Mentos mints, tape it into place and pull it off of the roll of mints.
- Step 3: Hold your finger over one end of the paper tube and have your child fill it up with Mentos mints.
