Monday, October 31, 2011

Mentos and Soda Exp. 3–Finding the Perfect Recipe

What's the perfect Mentos and soda recipe? And what's it like to rope-swing over an erupting soda fountain? Watch Zack and Austin discover the answers.

DATA

Click here to see our data.

CONCLUSION

15 whole mint mentos + Pepsi Max = biggest explosion

(14 come in a pack and would probably be just as good)

FUTURE EXPERIMENTS

No doubt about it—this recipe will give you the biggest explosion.  But clearly there’s room for fine tuning.  For one thing, our experiment involved only single trials of each quantity of mentos and needs to be repeated.  It would also be good to test each number of mentos, ranging 1 to 14, to determine the perfect number.  We could also vary the temperature of the soda to see if it affects the explosion.

We might not get to it for a while, so if any of you followers conduct any of these experiments at home, we would love for you to post your results here.

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