The Mentos And Diet Coke Reaction

I heard that if you placed mentos into a bottle of diet coke it would create a fountain effect. When I tried this I got covered in coke because of the speed of the reaction. Luckily no sugar means it does attract as many bugs. After this I wondered for a while what exactly is the chemical reaction that takes place between a mentos mint and diet coke. If anyone knows please post. It would be interesting if this only worked with diet coke. One more thing, I have also heard that a group of people created a video with several hundred of these "fountains" going off in a specific order to create a very unique affect. If anyone knows were this can be found please post that as well.

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That's really cool. I've never heard of that...

Of course, Googling it would probably just turn up 1,987,372,387,983 "Pop Rocks and Coke" hits.

But I'll try to find something.

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Ok, I just found a blog and one of the entries was about this.
This was one of the comments.



And I found an amazing video here.

Yeah, this is definitely fun stuff. I'm not sure if I understand the science behind it though. That quote seems like it's not quite accurate...

 

 

 

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that video is 5stars !!

but know this makes me thinking (before i go buy mentos nd coke, lol), this myght be a great advertising heist from coke and mentos, because everyone will run and buy mentos...and coke..lol

now really, that thing about pop rocks and coke, its an urban mith or its true ?

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Haha yea I have seen a bunch of videos of people doing this, its pretty cool. I'd try it out if I wasn't so lazy... but who knows maybe someday haha. Seems pretty awesome... I wish there was a video of the person who discovered this and their reaction to being covered in cola hahaha.

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Nice movie!

My Geometry teacher did this for us one day. It was really fun and I liked watching it. He said that there is some sort of sugar on the coating of mentos that reacts with the coke but I think we did it with a normal coke not diet. But after watching all that it made me wonder...what if you took that and put it in an enclosed container.

Put in Mentos
...
...
KABOOM!!!!

I think I'll have to try this later

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cyborg I've been thinking that too haha, it'd be insanely hard to actually drop it in and seal it though since the reaction seems to happen FAST, so you'd need to do soemthing time delayed... say wrap the mentos in enough paper towel that you could get the container sealed before the soaked soaked through enough (I'm sure there would be easier and/or better methods this is just the first that came to mind to demonstrate my idea)

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Yeah... pretty cool right? I have just read about it couple of weeks back when I was reading about the incident of someone dying from helium inhalation.

Anyway, I have a crazy idea. Kids, please just read this ONLY and please... don't try to attempt it. I don't know what will happen...
How about putting a mentos into your mouth, then take a big gulp of coke? Hehe.....

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I can't imagine it would do any damage assuming you didn't try to close your mouth mid reaction... now swallowing a large quantity of coke then swallowing a mentos whole... who knows

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