Now, I may have been
living under a rock, but until I saw this awesome ‘experiment’ on Studio 10
last week, I did not know that Mentos and diet Coke did THIS when combined!!!
I just knew my boys would love creating a mini volcanic explosion in their own backyard, so after discovering the phenomenon, I got myself to the shops a.s.a.p. and grabbed three bottles of Diet Coke – because one mini frothy explosion was never going to be enough (and it was on special, my lucky day…) and a three pack of Mentos – because, let’s face it, I would probably eat half of them before I got home (I did).
Donning Jilly Jumbles CRAFT APRONS, que gasps of
excitement and wide-eyed amazement from these two mini 'scientists', upon dropping a couple of Mentos into the
teeth rotting liquid:
Now, I’m not going to pretend I know why this reaction occurs between the two ingredients in this cool experiment (which I should have probably researched to explain to my boys before we set upon exploding coke), and I am aware we didn’t really conduct an ‘experiment’ at all – the proper way to do it would have been to purchase three different types of soft drink to be the ‘variable’ substance, like Diet Coke, Coke, and Lemonade for example, and use Mentos as the ‘control’ substance, and then see what happened to each different bottle…(which we might do next week)… BUT we did have FUN, and we did witness a very COOL reaction occur between two substances, so I’m going to call it an experiment anyway!
Next time you're at the shops - grab some diet fizzy drink, and a packet of Mentos - go on, you know you want to! Have fun!! :-)
