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| Remember Pop Rocks and Coke?; Look at what Mentos does | |
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| Tweet Topic Started: Dec 4 2005, 07:26 AM (266 Views) | |
| George K | Dec 4 2005, 07:26 AM Post #1 |
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The freshmaker! http://www.stevespanglerscience.com/experiment/00000109 A roll or box of Mentos® (candy mints) and a 2-liter bottle of diet soda. Either diet or regular soda will work for this experiment, but diet soda is less sticky when you're cleaning it up! Experiment: 1. This activity is probably best done outside in the middle of an abandoned field, or better yet, on a huge lawn. 2. Carefully open the bottle of soda. Position the bottle on the ground so that it will not tip over. 3. Unwrap the whole roll of Mentos. The goal is to drop all of the Mentos into the bottle of soda at the same time (which is trickier than it looks). One method for doing this is to roll a piece of paper into a tube just big enough to hold the loose Mentos. You'll want to be able to position the tube directly over the mouth of the bottle so that all of the candies drop into the bottle at the same time. 4. Don't drop them into the bottle just yet! Warn the spectators to stand back. Okay, you're going to drop all of the Mentos into the bottle at the same time and then get truckin' (move out of the way... so long... bye- bye... hasta la vista!) 5. It's just like fireworks on the 4th of July. The spectators erupt, of course, in a chorus of ooohs and ahhhs. Someone yells out, "Do it again" and you do.
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A guide to GKSR: Click "Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08 Nothing is as effective as homeopathy. I'd rather listen to an hour of Abba than an hour of The Beatles. - Klaus, 4/29/18 | |
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| dolmansaxlil | Dec 4 2005, 11:43 AM Post #2 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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COOL! I wonder if there's an excuse I can come up with to do this with one of my classes? |
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"Your first 10,000 photographs are your worst." ~ Henri Cartier-Bresson My Flickr Photostream | |
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| George K | Dec 4 2005, 11:52 AM Post #3 |
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I'm sure that you could come up with something about gases in solution, partial pressures, boiling points, all that neato physics stuff. Caroline....where are you?????
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A guide to GKSR: Click "Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08 Nothing is as effective as homeopathy. I'd rather listen to an hour of Abba than an hour of The Beatles. - Klaus, 4/29/18 | |
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| dolmansaxlil | Dec 4 2005, 11:58 AM Post #4 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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Oh that would be all good and fine. But I'm not sure I can connect that to grade 6 social studies, grade 3 art, grade 4 music and drama, or my developmentally disabled science class (we're currently working on what to wear for different temperatures and how to read a weather forecast, so gases in solution might be a BIT over their heads! )
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"Your first 10,000 photographs are your worst." ~ Henri Cartier-Bresson My Flickr Photostream | |
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| Riley | Dec 4 2005, 12:23 PM Post #5 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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The video won't work.
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| George K | Dec 4 2005, 12:25 PM Post #6 |
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I had trouble with the video as well. However, if you click on the picture on the webpage, you'll see another video. Make sure your Flash Plugin is up to date. http://www.stevespanglerscience.com/experiment/00000109 |
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A guide to GKSR: Click "Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08 Nothing is as effective as homeopathy. I'd rather listen to an hour of Abba than an hour of The Beatles. - Klaus, 4/29/18 | |
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| M&M's | Dec 4 2005, 12:54 PM Post #7 |
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That looks like so much fun!
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| My child shows GOOD CHARACTERIZATION in an ongoing game of D&D | |
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| sue | Dec 4 2005, 12:59 PM Post #8 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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ah come on, Grade 3 art!! use coke (something with colour!) and lay out pieces of paper to catch the explosion(s). You could call it 'pop art'
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| dolmansaxlil | Dec 4 2005, 01:01 PM Post #9 |
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LMAO!!! I wonder if I could do several bottles with different colours of food colouring in them. We could do primary colours and drop the stuff into 3 bottles simulateously, then let them explode all over a huge canvas.
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| sue | Dec 4 2005, 01:09 PM Post #10 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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Brilliant! And you could invite 89th to critique the end results
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| ***musical princess*** | Dec 4 2005, 01:15 PM Post #11 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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How did i miss this thread!?!?! That is soooo cool. You just know i'm gonna try it! ![]() x |
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| kentcouncil | Dec 4 2005, 01:20 PM Post #12 |
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Fulla-Carp
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Oh man... don't you people remember when Homer Simpson made a bomb out of pop rocks and a can of soda to escape from an enraged candy convention mob?!!! "I'll see you in HELL!" BOOOM!!! |
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It was a confusion of ideas between him and one of the lions he was hunting in Kenya that had caused A. B. Spottsworth to make the obituary column. He thought the lion was dead, and the lion thought it wasn't. - P.G. Wodehouse | |
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| ***musical princess*** | Dec 4 2005, 01:22 PM Post #13 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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Hehe - wasn't it with Lisa's science project?![]() x |
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| The 89th Key | Dec 5 2005, 10:10 AM Post #14 |
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![]() ...reminds me of my wedding night.
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| ***musical princess*** | Dec 5 2005, 10:24 AM Post #15 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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![]() You mean you proposed to me THREE times and you already have a wife!?!?!?! ![]() x |
| x Caroline x | |
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| Luke's Dad | Dec 5 2005, 10:27 AM Post #16 |
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89th, if you're planning on dropping Mentos into a 2 litre of Sprite on your wedding night, you have alot to learn. Oh, you must have meant the talk show hosts being there reminds you of your wedding night, cause I'm sure Jerry Springer will be there. |
| The problem with having an open mind is that people keep trying to put things in it. | |
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| The 89th Key | Dec 5 2005, 10:30 AM Post #17 |
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At least you can see his "O" face. ...rather,
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| tcmod | Dec 5 2005, 10:32 AM Post #18 |
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Senior Carp
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Fantastic!!! I can't wait to show my nephews!! |
| Dead girls don't say no, but you still have to buy them flowers | |
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