Lessons Lol — Sience

So next time your experiment turns into a comedy sketch, remember:

Never seal sublimating substances. Gas needs space. So do your eyebrows. 3. The Mentos-Diet Coke Geyser: Why It Works (and Why It’s Not Just a Prank) What happened: Thousands of YouTube videos of soda fountains erupting 20 feet high. Kids laughing. Dads getting soaked. sience lessons lol

It’s not a chemical reaction — it’s physical nucleation . The surface of a Mentos candy is covered in microscopic pits (about 10,000 per candy). Those pits trap tiny air bubbles. When you drop Mentos into carbonated soda, the dissolved CO₂ rushes into those pits, rapidly forming huge bubbles all at once. The soda becomes a foam rocket. So next time your experiment turns into a