How to make a coke and mentos rocket kids activities. Carefully replace original cap with your cork make sure mentos dont touch the coke. Begin by sliding off the cover of the mentos stick and drop it into the 2 liter bottle of coca cola. Feb 16, 2020 to make a diet coke and mentos rocket, start by sandwiching 5 stacked mentos between 2 4inch strips of masking tape. Put the mentos in the pouch and roll the napkin with the mentos into a tube shape. You can use any soda but room temperature diet coke for some reason is the best performer. We built a rocket launcher that shoots a coke soda bottle fueled by. Subscribe to my 2nd channel how to make a coke and mentos rocket.
Mentos are very porous and when they meet with the diet. Oct 10, 2017 diet coke and mentos underwater experiment duration. Eepybirds latest project is a diet coke and mentospowered rocket car. Especially when the project is already wasteful by design. Once you drop the mentos into the coke, stand back, its very explosive. Mentos diet coke geyser drop mentos into a bottle of soda and run away from the 20 foot geyser coke and mentos geyser fun science.
The trick is to drop the mento in as fast as you can. Although that may sound somewhat exciting, the coke and mentos geyser is the boring science teacher version of experimenting with mentos and coke. Sep 19, 2016 when a mentos mint is dropped into a bottle of diet coke, the resulting explosion of fizziness is caused by a process called nucleation. I am kicking off the series with the classic diet coke and mentos science experiment. Diet coke and mentospowered car is a blast autoblog. This entertaining video demonstrates how to make a bottle rocket using tape, paper napkins, mentos, and diet coke or coke zero. When a mentos mint is dropped into a bottle of diet coke, the resulting explosion of fizziness is caused by a process called nucleation. If playback doesnt begin shortly, try restarting your device. Aug 20, 2006 everyone is familiar with the fun that can be had by mixing mentos with diet coke. Jun 21, 2006 diet coke and mentos rocket over house duration. However, while people have tried various variations of the experiment, very few have taken it to the level that fritze grobe and steve voltz have, the founders of have. Mar 28, 2018 we built a rocket launcher that shoots a coke soda bottle fueled by coke and mentos.
After years of youtube videos where people mess with the explosive power of diet coke. Turn on looping for your embedded video so it will play over and over and over and over and over and you get the idea. Diet coke and mentos underwater experiment duration. The candies catalyze the release of gas from the beverage, which creates an eruption that pushes most of the liquid up and out of the bottle. The experiment is simple, you add all of the mentos to. Fueled by hundreds of blogs and popular online sharing sites like youtube, this once. Diet coke and mentos classic science experiment coffee. By closing the lid or lightly pushing a cork into the neck after adding mentos to a bottle of diet soda, you trap that gas. Nasas hilarious response to mentos and coke rocket proposal. I wanted to get to 60, but in this first part i make it to 52.
Jul 27, 2006 buy a 2 litter bottle of diet coke and a roll of mentos. This is mentos and diet coke by hannah castro on vimeo, the home for high quality videos and the people who love them. Im now crafting a much better plan to fuel rockets involving feeding astronauts a steady diet of taco bell. In this fun video, watch what happens when scientists conduct the classic mentos and diet coke experiment at 14,000 feet. Quickly flip the your rocket, set it on the ground, and get out of its way. How to make a coke and mentos rocket that goes 100feet in. Their viral videos have earned two emmy nominations, won four webby awards, landed them on vh1s list of greatest internet superstars, and were voted govirals online game. Why do mentos turn ordinary bottles of diet soda into geysers of fun. How to make a diet coke and mentos rocket with pictures. Ten years ago, we launched a rocket into youtube history, and we just had to do it again. Russian youtuber kreosan discovered that adding butane to a bottle of soda creates an immense amount of pressure, which will send it flying out of your hand with enough force to shatter a window. Dec 12, 2015 open a fresh 2 liter bottle of diet coke. Remove 4 mentos from the packet and get ready to drop all four of them into the bottle of diet coke as quickly as possible and jump back out of.
How to build a mentos and diet coke rocket show me how. How to easily make a coke and mentos rocket wonderhowto. This diet coke mentos experiment ended up a success the fails were super funny too, i got drenched in diet coke. Booyaka booyaka booyaka the girly laughter is from my friend mike. Dec 04, 20 nasas hilarious response to mentos and coke rocket proposal. Just drop a few mentos into a bottle of diet coke and youll see a violent coke and mentos chemical reaction resulting in a giant 16foot fountain of foam explode out of the bottle. If you stuck 8000 postage stamps, you could crash a copter, but a single postage stamp wont. The materials required for this project are a 2 liter bottle of coca cola and a pack of mentos candy. Childrens chemical reaction experiment rocket cola. A diet coke and mentos eruption also known as a soda geyser is a reaction between the carbonated beverage diet coke and mentos mints that causes the beverage to spray out of its container. Russian youtuber kreosan discovered that adding butane to a bottle of soda creates an immense amount of pressure, which will send it flying out of your hand with enough force to shatter a window although the video is in russian, its easy to get the gist of how to make a soda bottle rocket at home. Mentos geyser experiment experiments steve spangler science. Dropping mentos into a bottle of diet soda causes a physical reaction.
Co 2, aspartame, potassium benzoate, and caffeine in the diet coke, gum arabic and gelatin in the mentos, as well as the tiny pits on a mentos candy nucleation sites are responsible for the explosive reaction of diet coke and mentos. The awesome guys from, whom we interviewed both in 2007 and 2008 videos, have just released a brand new video showing their new creation at work. With just half the fuel, 54 bottles of coke zero and 324 mentos, the mark ii is substantially lighter. Eepybird explores creativity, particularly how everyday objects can do extraordinary things. Diet coke and mentos classic science experiment coffee cups. On their site, they have a 3d version of the video, if you have the glasses or want to make your own.
Bolder adventurers can make a rocket of sorts from an exploding bottle. Using a single 2 liter bottle of diet soda and 6 mentos, the minirocket. A member of the jackass crew would get diet coke into their ass the same way you guys did the beer thing with steveo and then somehow wedge. The music is an original track by bt, written just for this video. The person im talking to in the background is an annoying little girl who rode up on her bike. Mentos and diet coke video september 25, 2006 april 20, 2015 tracy 0 comment there are loads of videos out there demonstrating what can happen when mentos and diet coke are mixed, but these two guys actually turn it into an art. Jun 27, 2014 i am kicking off the series with the classic diet coke and mentos science experiment. Find a big open area to launch your mentos coke rocket.
Make a diet coke and mentos rocket mentos, coke experiment. If youve ever seen a geyser tube in action, you know how addicting that wild soda eruption can be. Forget mentos and diet cokethis is how you make a real soda rocket this definitely does not look safe. But i found that the unpredictability and danger from most rocket designs was unacceptable. In this video, they show off their latest wacky stunt, turning a speciallybuilt trike, some pvc pipe, 108 2liter bottles of soda and 648 mentos tablets into a rocket car. Slide the paper cover off the mentos leave the foil wrapper on and slip the roll into the bottle. Eepybirds latest project is a diet coke and mentos powered rocket car. If you though adding mentos to diet coke was the height of soda rocket science, think again.
Mentos and coke are our generations baking soda and vinegar. Place the tube in the top of the bottle, but dont let the mentos make. Diet coke and mentos experiment coke and mentos video. Dec 15, 2011 the coke zero and mentos experiment has come a long way since its humble beginning. The vehicle dribbles and fizzes along a blistering total of 221 feet before sputtering to a halt. The geyser tube is a loading tube for the now famous diet coke geyser powered by mentos and is one of the most viewed science experiments online. The coke zero and mentos experiment has come a long way since its humble beginning. In this video tutorial, viewers learn how to make coke rocket. We built a rocket launcher that shoots a coke soda bottle fueled by coke and mentos. If too much of the fizz escapes before you add the mento the reaction wont be as good. Showdown after years of work, weve harnessed the explosive power of coke and mentos and achieved human propulsion. Buy a 2 litter bottle of diet coke and a roll of mentos. Made famous by internet videos, and mythbusters in 2006, it was thought that this effect was a reaction of what happens when the gum arabic and gelatin, caffeine, potassium benzoate, and aspartame is combined. Then, wrap a 3inch strip of tape stickyside out around your finger to make a piece of doublesided tape.
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