My daughter is doing a science experiment. She placed a can of each in the freezer, and the diet exploded first. We are trying to determine why the diet exploded before the regular.
2007-01-09 13:18:42 · 4 answers · asked by Dan R 1 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Other - Science
Actually, it's the sugar in regular coke that is important here. A soluate -- water with disolved particles, such as sugar or salt -- has a lower freezing temperature than regular water. Hence, the sugar in regular coke means that it will take longer for it to freeze.
This is also the principle behind using antifreeze in your car.
2007-01-09 14:17:57 · answer #1 · answered by Allan 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
My guess is that because the diet coke has slightly more water content because of the missing sugar, so the water froze faster and into a larger mass. Mind you, this is just a guess. This also may be a random result. Did you try the experiment several times to confim the results? If not, i'd reccomend it.
2007-01-09 13:31:06 · answer #2 · answered by flyingbirdyaws 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
eating routine coke is better dilute, which signifies that a somewhat smaller volume of sugar is dissolved interior the same volume of water. for this reason, the water molecules can are available direction of one yet another better actual (Water molecules not separated with information from many sugar debris) and for this reason, this money owed for the actual incontrovertible fact that eating routine coke freezes faster.
2016-12-02 01:48:44 · answer #3 · answered by abigail 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
no, but i am totally watching this for the answer......
2007-01-09 13:22:23 · answer #4 · answered by nokiddingitsme 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋