We had a fun "experiment" yesterday. We took a 2 liter bottle of diet Coke and some Mentos, put 4 Mentos at the same time into the bottle, and shot a huge jet of soda into the air about 8 feet high! It was quite exciting, although I think the warnings that you might want to use eye protection were a bit overblown.
I suppose that it was an experiment only in the loosest sense of the term, but Michael forsees lots of fun in the future: using other types of soda, other methods for adding the mentos to the soda, and so on. It did get us out of the house for a while, and had Eleanor and Amanda dropping mentos into the used soda bottle and watching to see what happened---so cute!
I suppose that it was an experiment only in the loosest sense of the term, but Michael forsees lots of fun in the future: using other types of soda, other methods for adding the mentos to the soda, and so on. It did get us out of the house for a while, and had Eleanor and Amanda dropping mentos into the used soda bottle and watching to see what happened---so cute!
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Did you close the bottle and shake it before it shot, or did it shoot immediately as you added the mentos?
Our most recent food-science experiment was to put M&M's in water and watch the M&M's turn white as the color dissolved into the water. A tad less exciting, but the kids loved it! :D
I think the main reason you use diet soda is that it doesn't attract as many ants...
Watching M&Ms sounds like a good activity for keeping kids (semi) quiet. Sometime I'll post about the other projects we've done (eggshells in diet coke, rock candy, making paper...).
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