We decided to do science experiments a couple of weeks ago.  I found a really cool website that has easy science experiments.  My ds8 chose the one where we put hard candies in soda to see what happened.  Hard to believe, but this is what happens when you put a pack of Mentos hard candy in a bottle of diet soda...

Here is Caleb doing the Vanna White thing to demonstrate the items used in this portion of the experiement.

My dh was chosen to be the "funnel holder".  I haven't seen him move that fast in a while!!!

And it went up...

...and up...

...and up!!!

That is no trick photo...the diet soda spewed out in a column higher than our house!  Go figure.  The moral of the story is...never eat Mentos and drink a diet soda.  Here is the link to this experiment...it has step by step directions and an explanation of why this happens...Steve Spangler Science.

Enjoy!

DonDee

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Posted by OreoSouza

Too cool!!! We are doing that one today!

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Posted by grandmommy

That looks like something I'd do. I love those kind of experiments.

Gina

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Posted by nsremom

I have one word. WOW!!!! I'm going to try that. And to think, that's what happens in my dear ol' husbands stomach when he has carbonation. He swears it's just like that!! LOL

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