Why is Diet Coke the best with Mentos?

Why is Diet Coke the best with Mentos?

In the Diet Coke bottle the Mentos candy provides a rough surface that allows the bonds between the carbon dioxide gas and water to break more easily, helping to create carbon dioxide bubbles. Because Mentos candies are rather dense, they sink rapidly through the liquid, causing a fast, large eruption.

What Coke do you use for Mentos?

Diet Coke

How high does Diet Coke and Mentos go?

When mint or fruit Mentos are dropped into a fresh bottle of Diet Coke, a jet of Coke whooshes out of the bottle’s mouth and can reach a height of 10 metres.

What are the ingredients in Mentos?

Mentos Mint

• Label Information. FAQ / Contact us.
• Ingredients. Sugar, Wheat Glucose Syrup, Hydrogenated Coconut Oil, Rice Starch, Natural Flavors, Gum Arabic, Sucrose Esters Of Fatty Acids, Gellan Gum, Carnauba Wax, Beeswax.

Where is Mentos manufactured?

The Netherlands

How do you make a Mentos and Coke car?

What To Do

1. Using duct tape, tape the bottle onto a skateboard (or similar) so that the cap overhangs the end of the skateboard.
2. Tear off a 20cm strip of masking tape.
3. Stack 5 Mentos candies on the sticky side of the masking tape and wrap the tape lengthwise around the candies to create a package.

How do you make a homemade vinegar and baking soda rocket?

Fill the bottle halfway with vinegar. Scoop a spoonful of baking soda in the center of a square of paper towel and roll it up. Twist the ends to close the baking soda in. Place the paper towel into the bottle, but don’t drop it in the vinegar yet….Engage

1. Baking soda/vinegar.
2. Water pressure.
3. Air pressure.
4. etc.

Can you swallow Mentos gum?

Although chewing gum is designed to be chewed and not swallowed, it generally isn’t harmful if swallowed. If you swallow gum, it’s true that your body can’t digest it. But the gum doesn’t stay in your stomach. It moves relatively intact through your digestive system and is excreted in your stool.

Why is it bad to swallow blood?

Swallowed blood can irritate your stomach and cause vomiting. And vomiting may make the bleeding worse or cause it to start again. Spit out any blood that gathers in your mouth and throat rather than swallowing it.