How come when you put mentos in diet cola, if blows up or its goes up into a fountain for a few seconds and if you eat or put a mento in your mouth and drink diet cola it doesn't blow up?
2007-01-05 16:54:52 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Chemistry
because it reacts with our saliva
2007-01-05 16:58:26 · answer #1 · answered by jamaica 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well - the reason the Mentos creates the explosive force in the Pop bottle is that the mentos liberates the CO2 out of the soda all at once - due to a unique combination of physics - the micro structure of the surface of the mentos - and chemistry of the mentos themselves - in your mouth there isn't a lot of soda, and even less CO2 - so even though the Mentos does in your mouth the same thing as in the pop bottle it doesn't "Appear" to have the same effect - but it does, it's just that the volume of soda in your mouth isn't enough to trigger the reaction.
2007-01-06 00:58:52 · answer #2 · answered by mytraver 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
When you pur the mentos in the diet soda, there was a lot of the soda and the mentos had a bigger reaction. also when you eat mentos with diet cola, the saliva in your mouth deactivates the reaction.
2007-01-06 01:05:27 · answer #3 · answered by kate 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
look at it this way
even without mentos, the HCl in our stomach would have reacted with coke to give an explosion but it didn't
2007-01-06 01:19:02 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you watch the show "Mythbusters" they covered this.
2007-01-06 01:02:49 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋