Diet coke and mentos help?!
Diet coke and mentos help?
Does using more mentos change anything? Like will it explode higher?
Answers:
nope. thats a myth,. nothing will happen
OK people, we did this in my dorm in college, and NOTHING HAPPENED!!! WTH???
ok...I know this from experience. the more mentos you use the higher the explosion goes. For example, if you take a long roll of mentos and put them in (at the same time)and screw on the cap (even though there isn't much time) it will shoot up in the air. But, if you use one, the results arn't as exciting.
Only one way to answer that question.
Test it.
yep, i once put some diet coke on a bowl, and a cat came and drank it, so i later fed that cat some mentos and the cat was running back and forth, true story
only slightly...but the time will be shorter...but i would recommend staying under about 10 if it is your first attempt with more
Yes. If you use more mentos and screw on the cap really fast, a lot of pressure will build up and the explosion will be a lot higher.
i tried it a couple times the first time we used 4, then we did it twice using the whole pack. it does make a difference. when you use the whole pack it goes a good 20+ feet up. we used a aluminum cigar thing from my dad and put them all in the tube, covered it with paper and slid the paper out and the mentos dropped in.
have fun...
karina you don't screw on the cap, you take the cap off put the mentos in as fast as you can and run...
Yes, more mentos will help. You may also want to buy the $5 device from Steve Spangler (call any "educational toy store") which is a screw-on test tube thing with a pull tab to release the mentos neatly and quickly down the tube.
TIP: FREEZE the mentos for a higher eruption.
Here's a detailed blog post on mentos + diet coke or diet 7up:
http://www.essistme.com/2007/05/14/diet-...