Mentos Geyser Experiment

Mentos Geyser Experiment – Mentos & Coke Experiment 

Mentos Geyser Experiment You’ve probably heard that you shouldn’t eat Mentos while you drink Coke, but why is that? What exactly happens when you mix Mentos and Coke? Follow our step-by-step instructions in our Mentos Geyser Experiment to find out. This hands-on experiment is easy to do and simply involves dropping Mentos into a bottle of diet soda and running away. Beware of the 20-foot stream of soda that will erupt when you pull off this experiment. Why does the reaction happen? What is it with this experiment with soda and Mentos that causes this explosion to shoot so far into the air? While science teachers have been dropping candies and mints into 2-liter bottles of soda for years in an effort to release all of the dissolved carbon dioxide, the Mentos and Diet Coke reaction became world-famous in 2005. Fueled by hundreds of blogs and popular online sharing sites like YouTube, this once obscure reaction quickly became a sensational hands-on learning activity for young scientists. The enthusiasm for dropping mints into soda bottles continues to grow today. EXPERIMENT VIDEOS