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What erupts better vinegar with baking soda or Diet Coke with mentos?
Wiki User
∙ 14y ago
Bkng soda vinegar is a CHEMICAL reaction, a chemical change occurs giving CO2 and water. The rate depends on the conc. of your vinegar, temperature and the surface area of the soda (fine powder)
Mentos/coke is a PHYSICAL reaction, no chemical change occurs (though sugar dissolves and eventually hydrolyses to glucose, but this is incidental). The same thing happens with Mentos and carbonated water.
CO2 dissolved in the coke is released by a process called nucleation on the surface of the mentos.
A rough surface is better than a smooth one, so this might be a useful area to investigate for your project.
The mentos reaction is probably fastest under most conditions, and you can experiment with temperature, acid strength, different types of Mentos (some are smooth and are rubbish), fizzy drinks with different amounts of sugar dissolved, lots of variables are there if you think about it.
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∙ 12y ago
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Why do mentos explode in vinegar?
Acid in vinegar reacts with sodium monohydrogencarbonate (baking soda) which is present in mentos.
What stuff not to mix?
baking soda and vinegar. diet coke and mentos
What is the replacement reaction to baking soda and vinegar?
I think that Coke and Mentos will do the trick. It has to be REGULAR COKE!The Mint Mentos will work the best.
What makes an explosion?
You can mix coke and mentos together and it makes an explosion
Why do fruit Mentos and soda explode?
They explode because of the baking soda and vinegar mixed in and when there together BOOM.
How do you make a eruption without using vinegar and baking soda or soda and a Mentos?
open a coke bottle to fast.
What chemicals are used in a volcano experiment?
An volcanic eruption is NOT caused by a chemical reaction. It is caused by a PHYSICAL change. Gasses dissolved in the magma effervesce as the pressure on the magma drops in proximity to the land surface.
If you mixed mentos with baking soda and coca cola with vinegar then mixed the two concoctions together would the explosion be bigger than if you just used baking soda and vinegar?
Yes, but only because you increased the fuel. You would basically get the same sized reaction if you used twice as much baking soda and twice as much vinegar (or twice as much mentos and twice as much coke).
What can you do for a volcano project to make the eruption without using baking soda and vinegar or mentos and soda?
Yes I Do Jow Bout You
If you combine lemon juice and baking soda would it make a bigger chemical reaction than vinegar and baking soda diet coke and mentos?
Well, lemon juice and baking soda do have an acid and base reaction. Lemon juice is citric acid, whereas vinegar does not come from a fruit so it is not, They do both make a reaction but lemon juice and baking soda does make a bigger reaction. It all depends on the PH levels of the lemon juice and/or vinegar. For the mentos it depends on what type of mentos you are using. Like for example, in Japan, they have green tea flavored mentos, which does not make a big reaction. If you're just using regular old school mentos then the reaction is very big! I hope I gave you some information about chemistry.
Is there some other ingredients that can react and explode besides coke and mentos or vinegar and baking soda?
Yes, but don't try this at home.
Basic ideas to make a volcano?
The Basic materials to make a volcano are. Mentos,baking soda,vinegar, modeling clay and diet pepsi
