I ve heard that if you drop a mentos in a glass of Coke light the coke will pop up(a friend of mine did it and it actually worked!)
Who can explain that?????????????????????
2006-11-13 05:04:04 · 18 answers · asked by girl24gr 3 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Polls & Surveys
well basically its just a chemical reaction.
Since Soda is basically just made up of sugur,flavoring, water and preservatives. Since Mentos is a heavy peice of candy it sinks to the bottom of the coke bottle which making it easier for more bubbles to be formed from the bottom up. Each Mentos candy has thousands of tiny pits all over the surface. These tiny pits are called nucleation sites - perfect places for carbon dioxide bubbles to form. So thats what causes the eruption and boom it explode.
2006-11-13 05:13:17 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think it's the carbon in the coke reacting to certain ingredients in the mentos. It causes the coke to release all of it's CO2 and it bubbles up (is that what you meant?). If you've ever tried to drink the coke after it's settle down, it flat, even if you just opened it a minute ago. I hope that helped.
2006-11-13 13:09:29 · answer #2 · answered by Shelly 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
yes i have seen that infact it was on the tonight show once an amazing display kind of like fire works or special fountains
the only things different was the the two men who disovered this said it only worked on diet pepsi the large bottle size
as far as the chemicals i dont know and they did not either but it must have to do in part to with the artificial sugar .
2006-11-13 13:09:14 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
dont understand... so you drop a mentos in a glass of coke, then light it.. and what happens? how can you light a coke on fire?
2006-11-13 13:08:09 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
it's a chemical reaction. if you put a mentos into a diet coke, yes the coke will "explode"
2006-11-13 13:07:05 · answer #5 · answered by Coulson #14 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's just a natural chemical reaction. Hey, even a person who's not really smart could hit the check spelling button and realize there is only 2 L's in really.
2006-11-13 13:07:18 · answer #6 · answered by sixcannonballs 5 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Yes this can happen. I watched on myth Busters the other night
2006-11-13 13:05:31 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
It's the active ingredients from both interacting together
2006-11-13 14:28:42 · answer #8 · answered by Judas Rabbi 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
a reallly smart person
2006-11-13 13:05:59 · answer #9 · answered by Ormoz 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
its called chemical reaction toots...aren't you supposed to be in school right now? ya know if you girlies would open your science text books now n then you'd know basics like that..duh..this is our future Miss President people!
2006-11-13 13:13:01 · answer #10 · answered by Haggy~Naggy 2 · 2⤊ 2⤋