Is it true if you place mints in soda it will like fiss or explode?
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If you Google  with the words "Mentos Pepsi", you can find a number of videos that show this "experiment". You use a funnel to dump about a half a package of Mentos into a liter of Pepsi and then stand back. The Mentos cause the carbon dioxide in the Pepsi to come out of solution. Same effect as if you shook the bottle, only much faster. The gas pushes the liquid out of the bottle into a mini-fountain.
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Fizzy drinks (carbonated beverages) are produced by injecting carbon dioxide into the drink, causing the formation of acids, this acid can damage the coating of some tablets, this coating is meant for the content of this tablet to be released only inside the stomach, so the contents of the tablets may be released before reaching the stomach, which MAY cause problems, anyway fizzy drinks can harm teeth as well, destrying their coating ,"This research identifies fizzy drink as by far the biggest factor in causing dental erosion among teenagers," said Dr Peter Rock, of Birmingham University. \n\n"Drinking fizzy drinks only once a day was found to significantly increase a child's chances of suffering dental erosion," he added. \n\nDrinking four or more glasses of fizzy drinks a day raises a 12-year-old's chances of suffering from tooth erosion by 252 percent. Heavy consumption in 14-year-olds increased the risk to 513 percent, according to research published in The British Dental Journal. \n\nUnlike tooth decay, which results from high levels of sugar, erosion is caused by acidic substances in the drinks. Even diet versions are harmful
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Thats why soda is so bad for you.  Your basically dumping a can of acid into your body.  I can't even imagine the damage it does in there.
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When in the bottle or can the solution is in equilibrium with the partial pressure of C02 equal to the pressure in the can. When the can is opened the pressure in the can drops (the ffffft or hiss sound you hear) and now the partial pressure of C02 in the soda solution is greater than the atmospheric pressure. This results in C02 coming out of solution, which causes bubbles to form. The bubbles represent a separate phase, which is a heterogeneous mixture rather than the homogeneous mixture prior to opening.\nNote that the CO2 levels does not completely equilibrate upon opening. Once the solution has come nearly to equilibrium (re CO2), the soda is said to have 'gone flat' and is no longer fizzy.\n\nI'm not sure the presence of oxygen has anything to do with this phenomenon.
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I'm not entirely sure that that would actually explode.\n\nYou mixed salt water, salt substitute-water, alcohol, carbon and then the potassium p and ammon chlor.\n\nThe chloride and potassium may undergo a replacement reaction, but I doubt it would explode unless you actually lit it with a flame. You made great sidewalk salt though, go melt some ice :)
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Mountain Dew has the highest caffeine count for any other citrus soft drink, and it has one of the highest caffeine counts of all regular soft drinks. \n\nCaffeine can cause cardiovascular problems, becuase it increases your heart rate, elevates blood pressure, and contributes to the development of heart disease. It's also linked to coronary vasoplasms, the cause of 20% of all fatal heart attacks that kill otherwise healthy people.\n\nCaffeine stimulates the excretion of stress hormones which can produce increased levels of anxiety, irritability, muscular tension and pain, indigestion, insomnia, and decreased immunity. \n\nCaffeine can cause blood sugar swings, so diabetics and hypoglycemics should avoid caffeine. \n\nIt can cause nutritional deficiencies because it causes the urinary excretion of calcium, magnesium, potassium, iron, and trace minerals, and inhibits the absorption of some nutrients. \n\nFemale health problems like fibrocystic breast disease, PMS, osteoporosis, inferility problems, miscarriage, low brith weight, and menopausal symptoms like hot flashes are all exacerbated by caffeine consumption. \n\nCaffeine can leave you vulnerable to a variety of health disorders related to inflammation, autoimmunity, and fatigue.\n\nIt can also cause male health problems, but seeing your avatar, that doesn't apply to you! And I believe that it can increase your rate of aging.\n\nUntil looking it up, I actually had no idea that caffeine was so dangerous!\n\nCaffeine is addictive, to answer your question. It's a drug, not an illegal one, but still an addictive drug. \n\nWhy don't you try mixing cranberry or grape juice with club soda, half and half? That is an excellent alternative to drinking soda, which, even without caffeine, can hurt your bones, especially if you're a female.\n\nJust so you're not scared too bad, just know that one can of Mountain Dew will not kill you. If you stop drinking it now, or start drinking it only in moderation (2-3 cans a week, maybe, instead of all of the soda you're drinking now), the health benefits will follow shortly.\n\nNow, as for caffeine withdrawal, it does exist and many people, when trying to give up caffeine, deal with it. The primary symptom is a headache. The good news is that it usually only lasts from 1-5 days and can be alleviated with a pain reliever like aspirin. More good news is that after those 1-5 days, it's gone for good as long as you stop consuming caffeine.\n\nOther symptoms: being irritable, unable to work, nervous, restless, and feeling sleepy. In extreme cases, there's nausea and vomiting. Again, these symptoms will go away if you let them run their course.\n\nI, too, drink caffeine and am trying to give it up. Good luck and let me know if you need any more help or anything!
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well, when they make the soda, they inject carbon dioxide (the gas you exhale as a waste-product of respiration) at a pressure of several atmospheres (atmospheres are just a way of measuring pressure, the earth exerts a pressure of 1 atmosphere at sea-level, less pressure above sea-level, and more below it).  So the CO2 (carbon-dioxide) is injected at a pressure several times greater than normal.  CO2 easily dissolves into most liquids at normal atmospheric pressure, but even more so at greater pressures, therefor allowing larger volumes of gas to be dissolved into said liquid (it also dissolves more easily into colder liquids, which is why cold soda has more "fizz" than warmer ones).  Now that the CO2 is in solution, the container is sealed, so the atmospheric pressure is higher than that outside of the container.  When the container is opened, the pressure is equalized, and these large volumes of CO2 come out of solution, forming small bubbles, releasing the CO2 into the air, as the increased atmospheric pressure is no longer present to keep the CO2 in solution.  Now when you drink it, these small bubbles of CO2 hit your tongue, and the actual "taste" of the fizz, is actually a mild burning sensation caused by carbonic acid.  And that is why soda pop fizzes.  On a related side-note, this is in essence what happens to scuba divers who experience decompression sickness, or "the bends".  Gases which are constantly present in our bodies (in this case we are concerned with the nitrogen that is present), exhibit similar properties to CO2.  As the diver descends, he is increased to increasing pressure, much more so than elevation changes on land, since water is many times heavier and denser than air.  As the pressure increases, more and more nitrogen is absorbed and put into solution in the diver's body tissues.  When it comes time for the diver to ascend to the surface, he must do so slowly, if he does not, the effect is similar to what happens when you open a soda.  If he ascends at a normal pace, the nitrogen is easily released, but if he ascends to quickly, the sudden change in pressure causes the nitrogen to be released very rapidly, therefor forming small nitrogen bubbles in the various body tissues.  In effect, he has been opened like a can of soda.  These bubbles can form in any tissue, leading to extreme pain, deformity (if enough bubbles are formed in the bones), paralysis (if enough bubbles are formed in the spinal column or other major nerve clusters), or even death (if enough bubbles form in the brain).  I hope this answers your questions!
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explode or just burst? a bottle of carbonated drink bursts because the water in it freezes, water takes up more volume as ice so breaks the bottle.
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Actually, it is slightly better. The acidity of both does eat away at the enamel on your teeth. But, the sugar in regular soda also allows the bacteria in your mouth to have a field day with your teeth. You should always drink soda through a straw. That way it does not come into nearly as much contact with your teeth and gums.
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I've never had this happen to me, but I have heard that it can.  In fact, my aunt told me that even after you take the cup out of the microwave and go to stir it, it can explode then.
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It is a physical reaction, not a chemical one. Water molecules strongly attract each other, linking together to form a tight mesh around each bubble of carbon dioxide gas in the soda. In order to form a new bubble, or even to expand a bubble that has already formed, water molecules must push away from each other. It takes extra energy to break this "surface tension." In other words, water "resists" the expansion of bubbles in the soda.\n\nWhen you drop the Mentos into the soda, the gelatin and gum arabic from the dissolving candy break the surface tension. This disrupts the water mesh, so that it takes less work to expand and form new bubbles. Each Mentos candy has thousands of tiny pits all over the surface. These tiny pits are called nucleation sites - perfect places for carbon dioxide bubbles to form. As soon as the Mentos hit the soda, bubbles form all over the surface of the candy. Couple this with the fact that the Mentos candies are heavy and sink to the bottom of the bottle and you've got a double-whammy. When all this gas is released, it literally pushes all of the liquid up and out of the bottle in an incredible soda blast. You can see a similar effect when cooking potatoes or pasta are lowered into a pot of boiling water. The water will sometimes boil over because organic materials that leach out of the cooking potatoes or pasta disrupt the tight mesh of water molecules at the surface of the water, making it easier for bubbles and foam to form. \n\nWhen a scoop of ice cream is added to root beer, the "float" foams over for essentially the same reason. The surface tension of the root beer is lowered by gums and proteins from the melting ice cream, and the CO2 bubbles expand and release easily, creating a beautiful foam on top
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It works the best with "Wintogreen," rather than peppermint, and should be done with a fresh pack (the moisture makes it spark better). The spark that comes from the Life Saver is considered as a type of triboluminescence, which the sugar in Life Savers contain. Here's an excerpt from my source site: \n\n"Wintergreen sparking, it's believed, is actually a three-step process. Step One: When you shatter the sugar crystals with your teeth, electrons (which are negatively charged) break free. As a result, the atoms in which the electrons were formerly embedded become positively charged. In what amounts to a subatomic game of musical chairs, the free electrons dash around madly trying to find a new home.\n\n"Step Two: Meanwhile, as the sugar crystals disintegrate, nitrogen molecules from the air attach themselves to the fractured surfaces. When the free electrons strike the nitrogen molecules, they cause the latter to emit invisible ultraviolet radiation, along with a faint visible glow.\n\n"Step Three: The UV radiation is absorbed by the wintergreen flavoring, methyl salicylate. This then emits the fairly bright blue light you see. Pretty complicated, I admit. Clearly the planners in the Pentagon weren't the first to be obsessed with high-tech gimcracks."
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Pepsi is carbonated (contains bubbles of carbon dioxide).  This means that there is actually less volume of frozen liquid to be melted.
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The following really fun and interesting demonstration that is easy to set up:\n-This experiment should be performed outside as it creates quite a mess.  But it's worth it!\n-You will need  roll of Mentos brand mints, and a bottle of soda pop.\n-Roll a piece of paper into a tube, and put the Mentos in it (unless you have a flask/large test tube that the mints will fit in.  Trying to drop the mints in one by one will not work, the whole roll needs to go in nearly at once.\n-Open the soda bottle, line up your roll of paper with the mouth of the bottle, and drop in all of the mints.\n-You'll get a large eruption of soda!  I would suggest the person who drops the mints wear a poncho, or some type of protection against the fountain of soda that will ensue.\nThis website has an explanation of why the reaction occurs the way it does:\nhttp://www.stevespanglerscience.com/experiment/00000109\nIf you are going for something flashier (but much much more dangerous) my chemistry professor used to do the thermite reaction, that was always popular.\nHope this is helpful!  :-)
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use bicarbonate of soda,its short term though
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M&Msssss melt n your mouth not in your hands... also chips with a soda on the side...PeAcE
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exactly the same question was asked on brainiac, i was able to see it and it doesnt do anything tapping a soda can is useless\n\nhttp://www.g4tv.com/brainiac/episodes/4816/Episode_21_What_is_Faster.html\n\nhere a few links with tests of that question\nhttp://www.nerdygirl.com/sodascience.php\n\nquote : Based on the data we've collected (see Table 1), it seems certain that tapping has virtually no effect on the amount of foam one can expect from a soda can. The data in the Table 1 supports this -- you will notice, actually, that there is frequently more foam in the tapped cans than in the untapped cans.\nhttp://www.stevespanglerscience.com/experiment/00000024\nquote: Most people have learned to tap the top of the can before opening it. Scientifically speaking, THIS DOES NOTHING! However, tapping the side of the can knocks bubbles off the bottom and sides of the can, at which point they rise to the top. The trick is to dislodge the bubbles from the sidewalls and bottom of the can so they can float to the top of the can (because gas is lighter than liquid) and there is only a small amount of liquid blocking their escape when you open the can. Remember, SNAP the SIDE instead of tapping the top.\n\nas you can see it is scientifically proved that it is uselles :-)\n\nhttp://www.newton.dep.anl.gov/askasci/gen01/gen01124.htm\nmore proof\nand you will find even more if you search for : tapping soda can\nhope you like this answer\n\n:-)