Does Temperature Affects Sprite And Mentos?

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Introduction If The Temperature of the sprite is increased then the geyser’s size will increase because the chemicals inside the Mentos and sprite will be more irritated and burst out more violently. This is caused because of something called nucleation which is when carbon dioxide in the soda mixes with the chemicals of mentos the fizz is acting all bottled up like how you shake a bottle of coke but instead with mentos that is x10. The mentos acts as a booster for the fizz so think of it as a variable to make the sprite’s explosion bigger depending on the number of mentos. Some of the ingredients in sprite are as the following Carbonated Water, Phosphoric acid, Potassium Citrate, Potassium Benzoate, Citric acid, “natural flavors”, aspartame, and acesulfame potassium. While Mentos has sugar, wheat glucose syrup, hydrogenated coconut oil, rice starch, natural flavors, gum arabic, sucrose esters of fatty acids, gellan gum, carnauba wax, and beeswax.

How Does Heat Affect Sprite And Mentos? …show more content…

Another reason is that everytime I look on youtube and social media I see all the coke and mentos tags but I have never seen anyone try to experiment with Sprite, so then the idea kind of exploded at me to do something that I don’t even know might work so all together this experiment I am doing is really a big gamble. The question I am trying to answer is “How does heat affect Sprite W/ Mentos” and the things we will be changing are the different kinds of heat levels (3) in total, One will be in boiling water, another in the freezer, and lastly one that is just regular room temperature. Coke and mentos explode because of a chain reaction called nucleation, the cause of nucleation is because dissolved gas in a liquid comes out as a solution forming a crack, hole, crevice, or in any small container that's not in a

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