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.

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 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).

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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