Our 4H group is currently working on our educational display for the summer fair season. Our broad topic was "Backyard Ballistics." We've since narrowed it down to one aspect of that. However, in the meantime we've had fun trying our various "ballistic" type experiments.
This past week after our regular meeting had concluded, we all headed outside to try out the very fun "Diet Coke/Mentos" experiment. We actually decided to test various types of soda as well as the regular mint flavored Mentos vs. the fruit flavored ones.
The clear winner was a generic Diet Cola and Mint Mentos (five to be exact)....
It blew about ten feet in the air. We are lucky enough to have one Dad who has the day off and comes to our meetings. He happily did this experiment for the kids to observe. Saved us from having soda soaked kiddos.
We tried a number of different sodas, but none blew as high as the first (and best).
We had orange....
Caffeine-free Diet Coke...
And even a hefty 3-liter of Ginger Ale...
And just for fun...check out this video of another Coke/Mentos experiment...
You know we've loved those videos for years but never thought to do it ourselves.....this could be a fun summer project. LOL
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