Mentos & Soda Experiment 3 - The Perfect Recipe

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1	Mentos & Soda Experiment 3 - The Perfect Recipe

2	Background:
3	The CO2 that is dissolved in solution in soda can be released by adding a low-surface energy agent, such as Mentos. The liquid molecules are attracted the surface of the low-surface-energy agent, leaving the dissolved CO2 molecules free to escape the grasp of the liquid molecules.
4	In experiments 1 and 2 we found the best soda to be Pepsi Max and the best candy to be Mint Mentos
5	Goals:
6	Verify if Pepsi Max is indeed better than it's close contenders, Diet Pepsi and Diet Pepsi Wild Cherry
7	Determine the effect of adding more mentos
8	Determine the effect of whole, smashed, or chopped mentos
9	Determine if temperature is a significant factor. Also, is the reaction exothermic or endothermic?
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11	Experiment Design and Data
12	Custom experiment was designed in JMP 9.0 with 3 factors at 3 levels each.
13	Trial	Soda	Mentos Consistency	Mentos Quantity	Soda Mass Before	Mentos Mass Added	Soda Mass After	Soda Mass Blasted	% Mass Blasted		Editing Notes
14	1	Pepsi Max	Smashed	5	2049	14.21	720.5	1,342.71	0.66		clip 74
15	2	Pepsi Max	Chopped	10	2052.8	28.43	812.7	1,268.53	0.62		clip 75
16	3	Pepsi Max	Smashed	20	2054.7	56.86	745.5	1,366.06	0.66		clip 79
17	4	Pepsi Max	Whole	20	2049.9	56.86	730	1,376.76	0.67		clip 86
18	5	Pepsi Max	whole	15	2037.6	42.64	725.2	1,355.04	0.67		clip 87
19	6	Pepsi Max	Blended	15	2047.2	42.64	1450	639.84	0.31		clip 81
20	7	Pepsi Max	whole	10	2066.2	28.43	724	1,370.63	0.66		clip 89
21	8	Pepsi Max	Blended	20	2053.6	We ate	these	mentos!	'Cause blended	doesn't work. :)
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23	Validation Run	run optimzed parameters to see what we get
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25	Analysis:
26	Anaylsis was done in JMP 9.0
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