Soda and Mentos Experiment

School extra credit project
Look, this is just meant to be a high school extra credit project, nothing more. So I was a bit more lenient with experimental error. That being said, the main point still gets across, so it really doesn't matter that "the bottles are different sizes" or I "uncapped the bottles too soon" or "accidentally put in 4 mentos instead of 5." Woah, I know I'm such a disgrace to science. That being said, just chill out. I am not the first nor the last person to try this experiment, and my results were congruent with the majority of trials, so any experimental error is irrelevant. Thank you for watching and commenting :) Honestly, the only reason I even put this on youtube in the first place was because I couldn't get it onto a disk...

[Batzouz]

I didn't come for science I just game for the explosion

[gabbynamee]

I actually thought the cherry coke had the greatest reaction.

[theminecrafter.]

*at restaurant*
Me: can I have a Coke?
Waiter: Is Pepsi okay?
Me:iS pEpSi OkAy?!?!?!

[EtherealRazer]

I like how you did this with a bunch of different drinks instead of just diet coke, that was a great idea.

[MrRahimhosein]

Your experiment is flawed and your data is inconclusive. First- you didnt measure the height of the fountain of fluid to gauge which one is the most reactive. The height would tell us which fountain had more force pushing the fluid out of the bottle. Second- not all of the bottles were the same size, changing the force. The force will increase pressure because of the smaller surface area inside. Third- not all of the bottles had the same volume of fluid. Yea you poured equal amount out of the bottle but the capacity of the bottle is not all the same. Fourth- on the Coke Zero you only placed 4 Mentos in the bottle. You dropped one when putting them in. Fifth- you said Mountain Dew was the least reactive of all the sodas, yet we can clearly see orange Crush was the least reactive. We know this because the Crush and Mountain Dew were the same sized bottles. Sixth- the bottles are of different shape. This will affect the way the soda is forced out of the bottle. Changing the restriction on the bottles will affect fluid flow. You sound all scientific and sound like you know what you are doing, but there are way too many variables here. No real scientist could accept this data as valid or conclusive. FAIL.

[catmeep]

I'm a high school math and science teacher, with a daughter named, coincidentally, Eva. ! Seeing another girl a little older than her taking an active interest in research and science is really encouraging "my" Eva. :-) And from the science teacher viewpoint, I particularly appreciated how you used a control, stated your research question, and cited sources. Thank you so much for posting this!!!

[amta]

Guys why are you so rude? She's doing a science experiment. Does it really affect your life that much that she said Orange Soda and not Fanta? Does it matter that much, is it gonna change your life? I didn't think so. And she's not wasting soda if shes using it for a project. Just because some of y'all are to poor to do this doesn't mean you have to hate on her. And with that logic isn't she "wasting" mentos too? Either way it's probably for school so stop criticizing her it won't benefit you in any way all it'll do is hurt her. So stop being rude and get a life cuz if you're on YouTube insulting this girl for no other reason than to be mean then you don't have a life. And for you people who said she's "scared to get wet", would you want to be sprayed with all that sticky sugar soda? I didn't think so. So again, stop being rude for no reason. Thanks

[nooraldeenalnajdawi]

Orange soda was the least reactive not mountain dew

[naperdood]

She fumbled one Mentos putting it in the coke zero. You can see it during the slo-mo shot near the end. Yet it still was one of the most reactive with only 4 mentos.

[Brandon]

Very interesting. I wish back in the day we had projects like this in school. Would have made learning much more fun. Science is about learning. Ignore the people who make irrelevant comments about mistakes, you took the time to acknowledge them. You also did this in your spare time as well. I really enjoyed the new scientist article (thank you for including it), including the section discussing the crushed mentos which was something I was going to ask about.
Well done.

[oldschoolnickrocks]

Cherry coke seems like the most reactive imo

[aronoah]

She probably had ants for months and months after she did this..

[mozarth]

It's not the force of reaction knocked down the full cup soda, it was the gravity,

[eraukah]

That's a waste of some good Dr. Pepper there.

[ooftrainp]

It’s not orange soda it’s Fanta
EMELICKA EXPLANE

[youngspartan]

the next day she woke up to see an army of ant's on her table

[ThugMuffinification]

That would've been a really fun school project! It's actually really interesting to see which ones reacted. I assumed the Dr. Pepper would react the most because it seems to have the carbonation. I was quite wrong... and this is probly why I didn't do fantastic in science class lol this was a great idea to do! I hope you got good extra credit for it! :)

[Kidicaruslover]

Diet Coke and Cherry are the definite winners lol

[samanthareiblasphemina]

This was really fun to watch. I know it's from 6 years ago, but there's no need to apologize. You did just fine on a *school extra credit project.* Anyone who thought otherwise can kick rocks.

[lpskitkat]

This is what happened..
The mentos beat up the soda and the soda ran out of the bottle.