in today’s video we’re going to take a
look at the relationship between dry ice
and coke how they react and how big of a
you’ve probably seen some cool videos or
played around with the reaction between
diet coke and mentos this is a cool
little experiment the mint surface on
these Mentos has tons of tiny tiny
points that work as nucleation sites
inside of the soda the nucleation sites
pull the carbon dioxide out of the soda
where it’s dissolved and it suddenly
increases in size massively erupting up
out of the bottle lots of people have
done experiments with this and it’s
really fun to try at home as long as
you’re safe about it well we want to try
something else and that’s the
relationship between these carbonated
sodas and dry ice the dry ice can act
much the same as the Mentos with lots of
tiny little nucleation sites it pulls
carbon dioxide out of the soda quickly
with the added benefit that the dry ice
itself starts to sublimate and that
expands as well adding even more carbon
dioxide into the mixture hopefully
giving us an even bigger reaction here’s
the basic idea we’re gonna see what it
takes to get the best reaction between
dry ice and coke and then we’re going to
try and scale that up to something
really impressive here we go we’re gonna
do side by side tests of Coke Zero Diet
Coke and regular coke one at a time
though here goes Coke Zero with three
right about there I’d say not bad not
bad
decent little reaction mushroom fountain
that’s fine if it goes out of screen
it’s just to show it reacting is the fun
part
first was coke zero and now is diet coke
it maybe went just a smidge higher but
for the most part the diet coke and the
Coke Zero reacted almost exactly the
same way
[Music]
I would call that a noticeably smaller
reaction the Coke Zero and the diet coke
both got to about here the regular coke
I’d say only six to eight inches above
the bottle we got a pretty good launch
but of course we want more out of it
than that so this time we’re gonna see
what happens if we can strict to the
opening a little bit more this funnel
here has a much smaller opening on it
than our coke bottle we’re gonna try and
attach the funnel on to the top of the
coke bottle and then drop the Mentos in
afterwards now this is going to be a
little bit tricky so here’s my thought
we’ll have three Mentos taped together
just on the outside and that tape will
be attached to a piece of string which
will come up through the funnel and then
we can let go and that should drop them
in toast down in that point shooting our
little guys are up through our much
that probably went 8 to 10 feet up in
the air this little nozzle here the
opening is probably 1/5 to 1/8 the area
of the regular coke bottle opening so it
does have to go a lot faster and when
it’s going faster it goes a lot higher
let’s move on to dry ice now we’re
moving on to dry ice and we’re gonna do
two little tests we’re gonna do single
lumps that are just barely smaller they
can fit through the nozzle of the bottle
and then we’re gonna try crushing up a
bunch of dry powder and dropping that in
as well so first up single lumps Coke
Zero a single lump of dry ice here goes
a very quick foamy reaction in this
state with a single lump it wasn’t more
volume and it didn’t go higher than it
did with the three Mentos but we still
as you saw got a very quick reaction
same thing Diet Coke
[Music]
once again quick reaction lots of volume
a lot of soda was pushed out but it
didn’t go as high as it did with the
Mentos wasn’t as fast all right
regular coke dry ice single lump as
expected
I got a lot more of the smell of the
coca-cola with the regular as opposed to
either of the Diet versions yeah I think
we actually lost more total volume with
the dry ice it just took longer all
right let’s try powdered dry ice
my goal with the powdered dry ice is to
have approximately the same volume as
three mentos cuz I think that should
give us the best comparison of the
reactions I’m gonna take powdered rice
from this funnel and pour it down
through this funnel into the soda we’ll
see what kind of reaction we get it
didn’t sink oh it didn’t all go in
either it got frozen all right we’re
gonna try adding a little bit more some
of it didn’t quite make it through a
funnel got a little clogged from the
likes to get a little bit clogged so
this is kind of interesting we’re
getting a very very quick reaction with
the dust with the really fine powdered
stuff it’s actually reacting so quickly
that it just hits the surface and then
there’s so much bubbles and foam that
the rest of the ice powder isn’t
actually sinking into the cola so with
these larger pieces we’re getting more
of a reaction we just have to be able to
get them all in at once so I’m gonna try
filling more of those slightly larger
pieces into this bottle and pouring into
this one without any of the small stuff
to cause foam that’ll stop it
we’ve got a bunch of pebble sized pieces
of dry ice and hopefully those will all
flow in and actually sink a little bit
[Music]
[Applause]
yeah kind of like that that was a much
faster reaction still didn’t have a ton
of sinking so I don’t think our height
was any better than with the Mentos but
the speed of the reaction was quite
impressive that got me this is one of
the reasons we like using Diet Coke is
it doesn’t have sugar in it so it
doesn’t get sticky when you get coated
in it we’re still gonna want to wash but
it won’t be sticky and till then I
actually think that from here we just
want to scale this up I want to go big
and rather than using one of these
little coke bottles we’re going way up
we’re gonna use a five-gallon bucket for
this larger bucket we’re gonna use our
larger funnel that still has a pretty
small opening right there so here’s the
plan much like with our Mentos that we
dropped into the coke through the funnel
on the string we are going to attach our
dry ice to a mesh surface we’re going to
sort of make a bag
out of it the bad will be suspended
underneath the lid we’re gonna lower it
all down we’re gonna clip this lid on
there will already be several gallons of
coca-cola inside this I think we’re
gonna use the diet coke I like the
reaction to that one so Diet Coke
several gallons dry ice ten pounds at
least whatever we can fit in between the
coke and the surface we’re gonna seal
this down we’re gonna actually add some
additional tape to make sure it’s really
strong and we’re gonna let go of the
string and hopefully we will get an
almighty launch through the sky
up to where the dry ice is will be full
of coke and then by letting go of the
strings all of that dry ice will drop
down into the coke all at once hopefully
we get just an absolutely insane
reaction okay here we go a whole lot of
Diet Coke hopefully we don’t lose too
much of the fizz by pouring it into this
separate bucket this is the last I’m
going to be able to pour in before it’s
too high up okay I’m ready when you are
I’m gonna tip it it’s a little strong
for the bucket seal I think I can get
another another shot out of this that’s
a weird kind of coca-cola gun right
there refill a little bit of another
chunk of dry sand
[Music]
trying this again might help the lids
stay on better might just make it louder
there’s the louder when the bucket pops
open those thinking might happen and
that wire mesh which I’m sure is so
oh it’s leaking hello pop definitely
leaked before popping lucky guys that’s
not all we’ve always got more for you to
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look at the relationship between dry ice
and coke how they react and how big of a
you’ve probably seen some cool videos or
played around with the reaction between
diet coke and mentos this is a cool
little experiment the mint surface on
these Mentos has tons of tiny tiny
points that work as nucleation sites
inside of the soda the nucleation sites
pull the carbon dioxide out of the soda
where it’s dissolved and it suddenly
increases in size massively erupting up
out of the bottle lots of people have
done experiments with this and it’s
really fun to try at home as long as
you’re safe about it well we want to try
something else and that’s the
relationship between these carbonated
sodas and dry ice the dry ice can act
much the same as the Mentos with lots of
tiny little nucleation sites it pulls
carbon dioxide out of the soda quickly
with the added benefit that the dry ice
itself starts to sublimate and that
expands as well adding even more carbon
dioxide into the mixture hopefully
giving us an even bigger reaction here’s
the basic idea we’re gonna see what it
takes to get the best reaction between
dry ice and coke and then we’re going to
try and scale that up to something
really impressive here we go we’re gonna
do side by side tests of Coke Zero Diet
Coke and regular coke one at a time
though here goes Coke Zero with three
right about there I’d say not bad not
bad
decent little reaction mushroom fountain
that’s fine if it goes out of screen
it’s just to show it reacting is the fun
part
first was coke zero and now is diet coke
it maybe went just a smidge higher but
for the most part the diet coke and the
Coke Zero reacted almost exactly the
same way
[Music]
I would call that a noticeably smaller
reaction the Coke Zero and the diet coke
both got to about here the regular coke
I’d say only six to eight inches above
the bottle we got a pretty good launch
but of course we want more out of it
than that so this time we’re gonna see
what happens if we can strict to the
opening a little bit more this funnel
here has a much smaller opening on it
than our coke bottle we’re gonna try and
attach the funnel on to the top of the
coke bottle and then drop the Mentos in
afterwards now this is going to be a
little bit tricky so here’s my thought
we’ll have three Mentos taped together
just on the outside and that tape will
be attached to a piece of string which
will come up through the funnel and then
we can let go and that should drop them
in toast down in that point shooting our
little guys are up through our much
that probably went 8 to 10 feet up in
the air this little nozzle here the
opening is probably 1/5 to 1/8 the area
of the regular coke bottle opening so it
does have to go a lot faster and when
it’s going faster it goes a lot higher
let’s move on to dry ice now we’re
moving on to dry ice and we’re gonna do
two little tests we’re gonna do single
lumps that are just barely smaller they
can fit through the nozzle of the bottle
and then we’re gonna try crushing up a
bunch of dry powder and dropping that in
as well so first up single lumps Coke
Zero a single lump of dry ice here goes
a very quick foamy reaction in this
state with a single lump it wasn’t more
volume and it didn’t go higher than it
did with the three Mentos but we still
as you saw got a very quick reaction
same thing Diet Coke
[Music]
once again quick reaction lots of volume
a lot of soda was pushed out but it
didn’t go as high as it did with the
Mentos wasn’t as fast all right
regular coke dry ice single lump as
expected
I got a lot more of the smell of the
coca-cola with the regular as opposed to
either of the Diet versions yeah I think
we actually lost more total volume with
the dry ice it just took longer all
right let’s try powdered dry ice
my goal with the powdered dry ice is to
have approximately the same volume as
three mentos cuz I think that should
give us the best comparison of the
reactions I’m gonna take powdered rice
from this funnel and pour it down
through this funnel into the soda we’ll
see what kind of reaction we get it
didn’t sink oh it didn’t all go in
either it got frozen all right we’re
gonna try adding a little bit more some
of it didn’t quite make it through a
funnel got a little clogged from the
likes to get a little bit clogged so
this is kind of interesting we’re
getting a very very quick reaction with
the dust with the really fine powdered
stuff it’s actually reacting so quickly
that it just hits the surface and then
there’s so much bubbles and foam that
the rest of the ice powder isn’t
actually sinking into the cola so with
these larger pieces we’re getting more
of a reaction we just have to be able to
get them all in at once so I’m gonna try
filling more of those slightly larger
pieces into this bottle and pouring into
this one without any of the small stuff
to cause foam that’ll stop it
we’ve got a bunch of pebble sized pieces
of dry ice and hopefully those will all
flow in and actually sink a little bit
[Music]
[Applause]
yeah kind of like that that was a much
faster reaction still didn’t have a ton
of sinking so I don’t think our height
was any better than with the Mentos but
the speed of the reaction was quite
impressive that got me this is one of
the reasons we like using Diet Coke is
it doesn’t have sugar in it so it
doesn’t get sticky when you get coated
in it we’re still gonna want to wash but
it won’t be sticky and till then I
actually think that from here we just
want to scale this up I want to go big
and rather than using one of these
little coke bottles we’re going way up
we’re gonna use a five-gallon bucket for
this larger bucket we’re gonna use our
larger funnel that still has a pretty
small opening right there so here’s the
plan much like with our Mentos that we
dropped into the coke through the funnel
on the string we are going to attach our
dry ice to a mesh surface we’re going to
sort of make a bag
out of it the bad will be suspended
underneath the lid we’re gonna lower it
all down we’re gonna clip this lid on
there will already be several gallons of
coca-cola inside this I think we’re
gonna use the diet coke I like the
reaction to that one so Diet Coke
several gallons dry ice ten pounds at
least whatever we can fit in between the
coke and the surface we’re gonna seal
this down we’re gonna actually add some
additional tape to make sure it’s really
strong and we’re gonna let go of the
string and hopefully we will get an
almighty launch through the sky
up to where the dry ice is will be full
of coke and then by letting go of the
strings all of that dry ice will drop
down into the coke all at once hopefully
we get just an absolutely insane
reaction okay here we go a whole lot of
Diet Coke hopefully we don’t lose too
much of the fizz by pouring it into this
separate bucket this is the last I’m
going to be able to pour in before it’s
too high up okay I’m ready when you are
I’m gonna tip it it’s a little strong
for the bucket seal I think I can get
another another shot out of this that’s
a weird kind of coca-cola gun right
there refill a little bit of another
chunk of dry sand
[Music]
trying this again might help the lids
stay on better might just make it louder
there’s the louder when the bucket pops
open those thinking might happen and
that wire mesh which I’m sure is so
oh it’s leaking hello pop definitely
leaked before popping lucky guys that’s
not all we’ve always got more for you to
see that box up at the top is going to
take you to our last video you should go
check that out the other box shows you
what YouTube thinks you should be
watching next and you can hit this bomb
here in the middle you’ll be subscribed
to the channel that way you’re never
going to miss out on one of our cool
videos don’t forget to ring that Bell
and we’ll see you in the next one talk to you then
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