Your Kid’s Next Science Experiment Will Be Found on YouTube
// June 16th, 2008 // Social Media
For those who remember the Diet Coke + Mentos videos on YouTube, we now have scientific reason for exactly why that happens, and the reason is… Bubbles.
“Water molecules like to be next to other water molecules, so basically anything that you drop into the soda that disrupts the network of water molecules can act as a growth site for bubbles,” Coffey told New Scientist. “And if you have rough candy with a high ratio of surface area to volume, then there’s more places for the bubbles to go.” - ABC News
The famous Diet Coke + Mentos video:
Apparently, this recent finding has given children a fun new way to experiment with chemistry. Funny what one viral video on YouTube can lead to.
