Most AMAZING Experiments With Coke!

There’s far more you can do with Coke than just drink it.
Here is a list of the top 10 tricks and experiments you can do with Coca Cola.
10.
Coke Cans in Water This first experiment is a quick and simple
demonstration as to just how much sugar is in soda.
All you need are some cans of Coke and Diet Coke, and a plastic tub or other container;
a clear one works best.
Just fill the container with water and drop the cans of Coke and Diet Coke in.
Watch as the diet can floats on top while the regular can sinks down to the bottom.
The size and volume of the cans are the same.
The only difference is the sugar content.
The Diet Coke has no sugar and thus is considerably lighter.
However, the regular Coke has so much sugar in it that the can is too heavy to be buoyant
in the water.
Thus it sinks right down to the bottom.
9.
Boiling Coke Diet Coke fans will also feel good about this
one.
All you need is a pot you’re not afraid to get dirty, some regular Coke, Diet Coke,
and a stovetop.
Start by pouring the Diet Coke into the pot and set the stove to high.
Like water, it will steam and boil down to nearly nothing if left on high heat.
Might make a good sauce of some sort!
However, when you do the same for regular Coke, it leaves behind a gross, sticky, black
sludge.
That sludge is actually all the sugar left behind after the water evaporates away.
The high heat causes it to melt and caramelize.
This experiment just goes to show exactly how much sugar is in Coke vs. its Diet counterpart
since Diet Coke uses artificial sweeteners.
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8.
Cleaning Change Got some old dirty pennies lying around?
Try cleaning them up with some Coke!
Just drop the pennies into a cup of Coke and let it sit.
After about 10 minutes you should notice the coins starting to lighten up.
Within an hour they should be practically like new!
I am definitely trying this one!
This process works best for older coins because they tend to have more copper in them.
The reason older pennies become dark and appear dirty is because over time, the copper in
the coin reacts with the oxygen in the air and oxidizes or rusts.
When you place pennies in the Coke, the phosphoric acid in the soda starts reacting with the
copper in the penny.
This breaks the copper oxide loose, leaving behind the shiny exterior!
You can even take this experiment a step further and leave the penny in the Coke for a few
days.
Afterwards, you can weigh it and see how much of the penny was corroded away by the phosphoric
acid!
7.
Diet Coke and Mentos Yay!
Everybody should try this experiment at least once in your life!
You’ve probably seen videos of the Diet Coke and Mentos trick all over the internet,
but here is a way to get more bang for your buck!
All you need is a piece of paper, tape, and obviously the Diet Coke and Mentos.
Just roll the paper up and tape it into a tube just large enough to fit the Mentos inside.
Not too tightly though, because you want the Mentos to slide through easily.
Use your finger or something to hold the Mentos from falling through the bottom until it’s
fully loaded.
Then just place the tube over an open bottle of Diet Coke, release the Mentos and watch
out!
The reason for this violent reaction is that Mentos are covered with tiny bumps that act
as nucleation sites or areas where gas can clutch onto and cause bubbles to form.
And because Mentos are heavy enough to sink to the bottom of the bottle, it is able to
react rapidly with the entire volume of the bottle!
The carbonation bubbles up, and its only place to go is right out of the bottle!
Pretty fun stuff!
6.
Clear Coke This next experiment requires a 16 oz bottle
of Coke and just a little bit of milk.
Open the bottle and pour in enough milk to fill it up the rest of the way up the bottle’s
neck.
Just replace the cap, turn the bottle over to mix it a bit and let it sit.
After about 15 minutes you should start to see the different parts of the mixture separating
out in the bottle.
After about 35 to 40 minutes, it should be nearly done.
A semi-solid precipitate has formed at the bottom and the liquid in the top of the bottle
should be translucent.
This reaction is once again because of the phosphoric acid in Coke.
The acid adheres to the calcium in the milk, forming tricalcium phosphate; the sediment
which sinks to the bottom of the bottle.
Hydrogen is also released as a byproduct of the reaction.
5.
Coke, Milk… and Redbull This next experiment is similar to the last
one, but with a slightly different result.
You’ll need Redbull in addition to the Coke and milk.
This time pour the 3 ingredients into a glass.
It is a good idea to have the glass sitting in a plastic container or bowl to prevent
a mess!
Just mix up the three and wait.
Over time, you will notice it looks like the milk is starting to curdle, much like the
Coke and milk experiment.
However, as the reaction continues, a dark foam will start to rise to the top!
This is where filling the cup up too much can lead to overflow, which is kind of the
fun part.
But you should probably do it outside just in case....
Once it is done, there will be a solid material formed on the bottom, a clear liquid in the
middle, and a gross, gooey foam on the very top.
This foam is a result of the acid in the Coke and Redbull reacting with the milk.
However, the phosphoric acid in the Coke bonds to molecules in the milk and sinks to the
bottom.
Meanwhile, the acid from the Redbull reacts with the protein case in which usually floats
freely throughout milk.
However, the acid neutralizes the negative charge in the protein, making them clump together
instead of floating freely, pushing away from each other.
As you can see, many aspects of basic chemistry are at play even in your everyday beverages!
4.
Coke Lava Lamp Up next are a few simple steps and ingredients
you can use to make a cool soda bottle lava lamp!
All you need is some Coke, vegetable oil, and Alka-Seltzer tablets.
Just empty the bottle of Coke until about 1/3rd to 1/4th of the Coke remains.
Then pour in the vegetable oil until the rest of the bottle is full.
Wait until the oil and Coke have separated from one another.
Then drop the Alka-Seltzer tablets into the bottle.
You may need to cut them in half to make them fit in the bottle opening.
Then just watch it bubble and flow up and around like a real lava lamp.
This is because water and oil clearly do not mix well and seeing as how Coke is mostly
carbonated water, it separates from the oil.
Then drop in the Alka-Seltzer tablets.
As soon as you drop them in, they react with the water in the Coke, causing it to fizz
up and release carbon dioxide which floats to the top of the bottle, taking some of the
Coke with it.
This is what causes the globs of Coke to float up like in a regular lava lamp.
When it finally stops bubbling, just add more Alka-Seltzer to keep it going, or add a bunch
of tablets at once to make it look even wilder.
3.
Coke Bottle Gummy If you are looking for a new treat you can
make at home, this next one on our list might just fit the bill.
You can make a full-sized Coke bottle gummy!
All you need is a 16 oz bottle of Coke, some water and some gelatin.
First pour the Coke out into a glass and let it sit so it loses most of its carbonation.
Then mix 100mL (about half a cup) of water with about 56g of unflavored gelatin in a
pot.
Place it on high heat and stir until the gelatin has dissolved completely and the mix has become
liquid.
Remove the pot from the heat and stir in the Coke.
Then simply place it into a container and place the mix into the fridge for about 3
hours to cool off and solidify.
It’s a good idea to lightly coat the container with nonstick spray to prevent the gummy from
getting stuck to it!
You could also pour the mix back into the Coke bottle before refrigerating it.
Just be careful cutting the bottle down from the neck to the base and remove the gummy.
Then you will be left with a big edible Coke bottle!
2.
Easy Coke Slushies The gummy is a good treat in general, but
for those hot summer days, a nice Coke slushie might be what you need to cool off!
Just take a 16 oz bottle of Coca Cola and shake it for about 30 seconds.
The shaking causes it to fizz up as it releases the carbon dioxide.
This increases the pressure in the bottle which helps to slightly lower the freezing
point of the Coke inside.
Then just place the bottle in the freezer for about 2 to 3 hours.
When you open the bottle, you might see some ice start to form inside.
Then just pour it out into a glass and watch as it freezes nearly instantly as it pours
out!
Or to speed up the process, you can turn the bottle over once or twice to help the ice
crystals spread and form faster throughout the bottle.
The instant freezing of the Coke is due to the supercool soda.
In the absence of any impurities, the water in the soda can remain liquid even under extremely
low temperatures until something else is introduced or acts upon the system.
So then when you open or shake the bottle, the process of nucleation begins causing the
ice crystals to form.
Pretty neat, huh?
1.
Coke and Pool Cleaner This last experiment is potentially dangerous
and should only be done under professional supervision.
Do not try this at home.
Coke and Mentos create a pretty powerful eruption, but did you know that Coke and pool chlorine
have a much more explosive effect?
At first, mixing the two doesn’t yield much more than some bubbles at the top of whatever
container they are poured into.
However, within moments, an eruption of smoke and bubbles bursts from the container.
The reaction produces a lot of heat and can be so volatile that it can cause the container
to vibrate before bursting out.
The smoke released is actually chlorine gas being produced by the reaction between the
phosphoric acid in Coke with the calcium hypochlorite found in pool cleaner.
Chlorine gas is actually very poisonous and should be avoided at all costs.
So, be safe and once again, do not try this at home!
It may seem like something fun to do, but you never know what might happen.
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Most AMAZING Experiments With Coke!

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