Coke and mentos

Exploding coke

Aim: to see if  coke explodes when as mentos lolly is dropped into it using different temperatures and different kinds of coke.

Hypotosus:

The coke will explode and it will go over 10 cm.

Equipment:

Ruler

Beaker

Thermometer

Coke Mentos

Measuring flask

Method:

Task 1:

1. pour 100 mil coke in to flask 
2. add mentos

Task 2:

1. heat up 150ml in a beaker of coke(using a thermometer to heat it to 15 degrees).
2. place the beaker in the sink and add mentos.

Findings:

6 Mentos lollies were dropped into a bottle of coke. the height of the fountain of coke was measured in centimetres.

A Mentos was crushed and dropped into the coke. This showed no result.

Liquid	Height
Coke	48c m
Crushed Mentos	No result
Coke Zero	44 cm
heated to 15 degrees	nothing but a few bubbles