Chemical Reaction Experiment

Honors Chemistry students were conducting an experiment involving mentos & diet soda to test the chemical reaction between the two. The result is a giant geyser of soda spewing from the 2 liter bottle. The questions is why?

Students love to conduct this experiment and the reaction on their faces is always the same. They tried different variables to see which produced the highest geyser. Check out the video:

This experiment was part of a training for these honors students by the University of Arizona. They will be tutoring other students in science.

Training conducted by Jose of the University of Arizona — Training session by University Of Arizona

You can try this at home yourself. You will need:

A roll or box of Mentos mints
2-liter bottle of diet soda (diet or regular soda will work, but diet soda is not as sticky)
Piece of paper to use a funnel to drop Mentos in bottle

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