Any brand of pop will do for your rocket bottle, and you can use any size, but we’ve had the best results with a standard two-liter bottle. Just make sure it’s a soda bottle.

You start with some soda in a bottle and you pour a bit of it out (to make room for the butane). Next, you add the butane on the top of the soda. Butane has a boiling point of 30°F (-1°C).

Get ready to soar to new heights with this easy and fun DIY project! Learn how to turn a plastic bottle into a rocket that can actually blast off into the air. This creative and educational science ...

You may wonder what to do with an old plastic water bottle. Sure, you could just drop it in the recycle bin -- but it could also be “upcycled” into a rocket like Ben Cusick’s model ...

This guy builds rockets with bottles and water, adding liquid nitrogen, turning them upside down and boom, instant propulsion: The nitrogen expands very fast on top of the warmer water, turning ...

Nurture Nature Center’s docent Jeff Mucklin explains how a smiley face fireworks is made with different chemicals that burn ...

SAFETY: This rocket uses air pressure to fling a bottle at high speed 20–50 metres. The bottle must be made entirely of plastic, it must have no sharp points and it must be for a fizzy drink, so ...

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