[video]Try to upload a video: What happens when you combine 200 liters of Diet Coke and over 500 Mentos mints?

[video]Try to upload a video: What happens when you combine 200 liters of Diet Coke and over 500 Mentos mints?
Jun 30, 2006 12:12
RUNNERMORE Points: Join Date: Apr 20, 2006 Status: offline	It's amazing and completely insane. Mentos + Pop = Fun Words cannot begin to describe the awesome eruption that is created from adding Mentos candies to a 2-liter bottle of soda. The eruption is enormous... and so is the learning if you consider the chemistry. Materials: A roll or box of Mentos (candy mints) and a 2-liter bottle of diet soda. Either diet or regular soda will work for this experiment, but diet soda is less sticky when you're cleaning it up! Video - Mentos Eruption - 18 Foot Record Video - The Perfect Mentos Eruption Read Steve's blog Experiment: This activity is probably best done outside in the middle of an abandoned field, or better yet, on a huge lawn. Carefully open the bottle of soda. Position the bottle on the ground so that it will not tip over. Unwrap the whole roll of Mentos. The goal is to drop all of the Mentos into the bottle of soda at the same time (which is trickier than it looks). One method for doing this is to roll a piece of paper into a tube just big enough to hold the loose Mentos. You'll want to be able to position the tube directly over the mouth of the bottle so that all of the candies drop into the bottle at the same time. Don't drop them into the bottle just yet! Warn the spectators to stand back. Okay, you're going to drop all of the Mentos into the bottle at the same time and then get truckin' (move out of the way... so long... bye- bye... hasta la vista!) It's just like fireworks on the 4th of July. The spectators erupt, of course, in a chorus of ooohs and ahhhs. Someone yells out, "Do it again" and you do.

Jun 30, 2006 12:12

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It's amazing and completely insane.

Mentos + Pop = Fun Words cannot begin to describe the awesome eruption that is created from adding Mentos candies to a 2-liter bottle of soda. The eruption is enormous... and so is the learning if you consider the chemistry.

Materials:
A roll or box of Mentos (candy mints) and a 2-liter bottle of diet soda. Either diet or regular soda will work for this experiment, but diet soda is less sticky when you're cleaning it up!

Video - Mentos Eruption - 18 Foot Record
Video - The Perfect Mentos Eruption
Read Steve's blog

Experiment:

This activity is probably best done outside in the middle of an abandoned field, or better yet, on a huge lawn.

Carefully open the bottle of soda. Position the bottle on the ground so that it will not tip over.

Unwrap the whole roll of Mentos. The goal is to drop all of the Mentos into the bottle of soda at the same time (which is trickier than it looks). One method for doing this is to roll a piece of paper into a tube just big enough to hold the loose Mentos. You'll want to be able to position the tube directly over the mouth of the bottle so that all of the candies drop into the bottle at the same time.

Don't drop them into the bottle just yet! Warn the spectators to stand back. Okay, you're going to drop all of the Mentos into the bottle at the same time and then get truckin' (move out of the way... so long... bye- bye... hasta la vista!)

It's just like fireworks on the 4th of July. The spectators erupt, of course, in a chorus of ooohs and ahhhs. Someone yells out, "Do it again" and you do.

Jun 30, 2006 12:13	#1
RUNNERMORE Points: Join Date: Apr 20, 2006 Status: Offline	Great! It works. I'm very curious about what will happen to have mentos while drinking coke? But I won't try!:P

Jun 30, 2006 21:28	#2
LOVECHINA2 Points: Join Date: Mar 31, 2005 Status: Offline	Awwwwwwwwwwww...come on....give it a try..swallow a few Mentos and drink a Coke...let us know what happens..hehe..Might be a good bar trick to play on someone you don't like:))

Jul 1, 2006 20:23	#3
RUNNERMORE Points: Join Date: Apr 20, 2006 Status: Offline	Haha~~ i won't take the risk in my stomach. I'd like to experiment in bathroom. It'll be fun!:D

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