I know this is probably old news to most of you but I've been so busy I just saw this. Apparently if you put a butt-load of mentos into a 2 liter bottle of diet coke, you get a huuuuge reaction, like, immediately. Here is one of probably hundreds of videos showing the reaction:
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Wouldn't this be a great cheap special effect for a Super 8 film?
Roger
Euh, like shooting from a vantage point and track the launced bottles or more like the rocket camera idea of Nigel. I.e. strap a (somebody else's) camera to a bottle and see what comes of these images when it is running when it is launched.
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If you goto youtube.com and type in mentos, there are alot of examples of this both weak attempts and good ones.
Imagine how they found out this worked though? I feel sorry for the poor sap who tries to eat a bunch of mentos whilst drinking diet coke inorder to get on the next Jackass movie! 8O
jean wrote:makes me wonder if any poor fellow ever by accident drank some coke while chewing mentos?
Hey, there's a rapid weight loss program! Just drink a bottle of Diet Coke, pop some Mentos and hold your breath while your friends run from the room! :lol:
As you may know I work in the science department of a London school...a few days before this phenomenon was spread across the London newspapers a teacher picked it up on an internet forum and we tried it...works really well...
There's a spoof video somewhere on YouTube of a girl eating mints, drinking pepsi, dancing around and exploding.....
The government says that by 2010 30% of us will be fat....I am merely a trendsetter
I am really fascinated by this. I can imagine why there would be a reaction but it is so violent and fast. Is there a chemist in the house?
The sugar in the Mentos lowers the surface tension, and it has a rough surface at the molecular level - this provides many nucleation sites for the CO2 to come out of solution as bubbles. The surface tension is lowered, so the bubbles are able to migrate into the atmosphere.
I don't know why Diet Coke works better than other sodas. I hate the stuff and will never purchase it or consume it, so I can't be the one to ingest both simultaneously ;)
