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This week I'm teaching a summer camp for 3rd - 5th graders.  One of activities today was the Exploding Soda Experiment.  For today's class I bought several varieties of soda to determine which produced a more impressive explosion by height.  Although soda shot out of the Sprite* and Diet Sprite* bottle, they were less than impressive.  Coke* was somewhat impressive, but the two that shot the highest were Diet Coke* and Diet Root Beer*.

*These were not name brand sodas, so it was the store brand version of Coke, Diet Coke, etc.  The kids were a bit disappointed after the Spirte and Diet Sprite, but sprang back to attention after being shocked by the height of the Diet Coke spray.