Jon+M13

Jon M 2012-2013
 * THE HEIGHT OF MENTOS GEYSERS WITH DIFFERENT MATERIALS **

====This experiment’s purpose was to see if different materials make Diet Coke make a larger geyser then Mentos. It was hypothesized that nothing would go higher then Mentos because Mentos and Diet Coke are the most know experiment. The Mentos make the highest geyser because it has lots of tiny holes which create nucleation. Also, the weight of the Mentos made them sink to the bottom making the nucleation push most of the Diet Coke to the top through the funnel making a lager geyser. The other materials made smaller to no geysers. Most of the materials that made no geyser didn't do anything because they were light and didn't sink to the bottom. That affected the geyser because the nucleation had nothing to push up so it just bubbled. The anti-acid made a large geyser but for some reason, the anti-acid with pain reliever made a geyser that was really small. The pain reliever reduced nucleation so the geyser didn't go as high as the regular anti-acid. Overall, the Mentos made the largest geyser. ====
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 * EXPERIMENTAL IMPROVEMENTS AND FUTURE EXPERIMENTS **

An improvement to this experiment would be to make sure that the weather is the same on every experiment. Also the height of the geyser could be exact by standing closer to the geyser. A future experiment would be to test if the temperature changes when Mentos are dropped into it. The temperature could be measured with a temperature probe. Different amounts of Mentos could be dropped in and then the temperatures could be measured for all the different amounts of Mentos. 