Have you ever wondered what makes Diet Coke and mentos explode and bubble so much? Well here is why it does. There are many reasons why some sodas and colas will not explode as much as other sodas and colas. There is a difference in a physical and chemical reaction when adding in mentos to the different varieties of coke. Researchers have also found different reactions of when submerging mentos into different types of coke. It has also been found on how the parts of the mentos and cokes are broken down to create the eruption. Some colas will explode higher or lower because of the amounts of caffeine, sodium, or sugar. Also how fast the mentos fall into the bottle can affect the height of the geysers. It has been proven that there is a difference
Though many people will think there is a lot of bad in soda, technically it’s just carbonated water, which is basically “gas that’s called carbon dioxide that has been dissolved under high pressure” (sciencebuddies.org). When one opens a can of soda pop the carbon dioxide in it is released out causing the bubbles in the drink, and the best part for this project is that one can choose their own way to do it, yes they may have to follow what the recipe calls for but they can choose their favorite flavors and their own color for it like if they wanted to they could make a bacon flavored pop but it might not taste the best but the point would be that it would be their own idea.
The diet coke and Mentos experiment has been a favorite of amateur scientists, but how does it work? There have been debates, and scientists have concluded that the diet coke and Mentos is a physical reaction, called nucleation. Nucleation sites are areas that have high surface with low volume. Such places can be your fingerprint, scratches on glass, specks of dust, or even Mentos candy (Eepy Bird). Mentos candies have a pitted surface that’s rough when looked at through a microscope, therefore creating a wonderful place for nucleation to occur. Water molecules like to be next to other water molecules, so if you drop something into the soda, like Mentos, it acts as a site for growth of bubbles. Mentos have a high
A rougher candy surface such as, Mentos, means there are more places for bubbles to grow, or more nucleation sites. (brilliant.org) Surfactants are compounds that lower the surface tension between two liquids. (brilliant.org) Dropping Mentos in Coke is an example of a surfactant. The eruptions happen due to nucleation where the Carbon Dioxide in the soda is drawn to the Mentos. (eepybird.com) The pressure of the bottle is trapping the CO2 inside. The CO2 in the soda reacts to the sugar on the Mentos.
The Mentos and soda react due to nucleation. When the carbon dioxide from the soda mixes with the Mentos, the carbon dioxide is squeezed into liquid it’s looking for a way out. It’s trying to hook on to it can and those things are nucleation sites. Since the Mentos are coated with A TON of sugar that is also contains tons and tons of nucleation sites which causes pressure to build up and BAM It explodes.
For this lab, we brought a empty soda can to school to show how pressure and temperature can affect the structure of the can. To begin the experiment, we needed a empty soda can, water and ice in a small plastic tub, and a hot plate. First, we added about a tablespoon of water to the empty soda can. Second, we put the soda can on the hot plate and waited until the water was brought to a boil. Then we used beaker tongs to carry the hot soda can and flipped it over into the container of water and ice. Once the can touched the water, the can made a loud crushing sound and the can crippled inward.
The surface of a Mentos is coarse and bumpy, these bumps are called nucleation sites. These sites can be any bumpy surface like sandpaper or even the ridges of a finger, but since there are so many bumps on the surface of a Mentos they are perfect for this experiment. Soda is full of carbon dioxide, and normally, carbon dioxide molecules are separated, however when offered a nucleation site the molecules come together and form a bubble. Since the volume in this bottle greatly increases because of the production of bubbles the bubbles can not be contained, so they erupt out of the top of the
Liabilities are obligations that are the responsibility of the company and can be in the forms of loans that the company needs to pay or services that the company still needs to provide (Merritt, 2016). Liabilities are broken down into two main categories, current liabilities and long term liabilities (McClure, n.d.). Current liabilities are those obligations that will come due within the next year, while long term liabilities typically come due in the future, but not within the next 12 months (McClure, n.d.).
Do you know why soda spews when shaken? Which soda do you think will spew the most when shaken? The Coca Cola will spew the most out of all of the soft drinks. If the shaking of the soft drinks will have to be shaken at the same amount of time, how many seconds should the drinks be shaken? It is important for the drinks to be shaken equally. Many people would like to know so, they know which soda to drink that has less carbonation and doesn’t spew the most. Finally, the most important three topics you will need to know about is carbonation, pressure, and surface tension.
If we have waited a couple of more minutes for the carbonation, the balloons could of have been bigger and we would have had more accurate data. Some challenges we faced in our project was that some of the balloons popped while during the experiment and we figured out that they popped because of the amount of salt. We could have improved on the amount of salt that was poured into the soda. We should have added less salt to the balloon because that would have stopped the balloons from popping. The next step would have been to put less salt so the soda does not elevate to the top and fill up and pop the balloons.
The question that i was trying to answer is”How high can soda Fizz with mentos”. My hypothesis was that Coca-Cola will go the highest. My hypothesis was correct because out of all the other soda’s ,the Coca-Cola went the highest. The number that supported it was that it was measured in milliliters and they go up by 30. The variable that I controlled well was all of the variables because I nailed my experiment by studying.The Variables that might have messed up my experimentation might have been the dependent variable because when I did the test it did not work for a second but then it started to work after a while. I learned that if you put too much Mentos in one can of soda not that much pain will come out and if you have one can cold and
It was finally Friday, August 28, and I was eager to go to school. Friday, was the day our classroom got to do the Diet Coke Mentos Project. For this project we needed the following: two liters diet coke, mentos, tubes, thermometer, a beautiful sunny day, a bunch of excited fourth grader and an awesome teacher, who let us do this cool project. We were so happy to do this project we could not wait until that moment.
After completing the experiment, I accept and support my hypothesis which was that 3 Mentos would create the tallest soda geyser. The average height of 1 Mento was 24.7 inches, 2 Mentos was 51.7 inches, and 3 Mentos created the tallest geyser averaging at 58.7 inches. It is clear that the 3 mento geyser is the tallest geyser due to the greater amount of Mentos. In this experiment there were many sources of error. The first one was that the experiment was being done on a uneven surfaces causing the geysers to shoot left or right instead of straight up causing the geysers to not reach their true height. Another error was that when dropping in the Mentos, they were not evenly spaced times causing different reactions and different heights. An additional
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