Will any soda work with Mentos?

Any Carbonated Beverage Works It works with regular cola, orange soda, root beer, etc. It’s actually very cool when performed with tonic water under a black light because you get a glowing blue fountain. However, you can use seltzer water (very easy cleanup) or any soda.

What drink explodes with Mentos?

Diet Coke
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 be expelled from its container.

How do you make the best Mentos and Coke explosion?

Step 1: Remove the lid from the Diet Coke and set it the bottle of soda on a flat surface.

1. Step 2: Roll the paper into a tube around a pack of Mentos mints, tape it into place and pull it off of the roll of mints.
2. Step 3: Hold your finger over one end of the paper tube and have your child fill it up with Mentos mints.

What happens if you put Mentos in Sprite?

As the Mentos candy sinks in the bottle, the candy causes the production of more and more carbon dioxide bubbles, and the rising bubbles react with carbon dioxide that is still dissolved in the soda to cause more carbon dioxide to be freed and create even more bubbles, resulting in the eruption.

What can you use instead of Mentos in Coke?

You can substitute another candy for the Mentos, such as M&Ms or Skittles, but ideally, you want candies that stack into a neat column with minimal space between them, have a chalky consistency, and barely fit through the mouth of a 2-liter bottle.

What happens when you add Mentos to water?

Observations and results In the Diet Coke bottle the Mentos candy provides a rough surface that allows the bonds between the carbon dioxide gas and water to break more easily, helping to create carbon dioxide bubbles.

What can I substitute for Mentos?

What powder do you put in a Coke bottle to make it explode?

Baking powder releases massive amounts of CO2 in soda Mamix took this reaction to unprecedented scales — using 2,642 gallons (10,000 liters) of soda to create the “largest chemical cola eruption in history,” according to a local news channel.

What else besides Mentos makes coke explode?

If I test Mentos, Wintergreen Lifesavers, Icebreakers Frost Mints, and Pop Rocks to make Diet Coke explode, then Pop Rocks will make the biggest Diet Coke explosion.