Remember watching this on MythBusters a while back.
All you need is coke and some mentos sweets.
Suppose to get plain mentos but after walking to 3 shops we finally gave up and bought 'iced flavoured' ones only to discover the 4th shop had what I wanted, sigh! We got one normal coke and diet coke to see whether the jet eruption would be different. Of course, it would be better planned if you got them the same sized bottles!!
The trick is to ensure that you drop at least 5 sweets into the coke all at once and then move out of the way - least you don't mind getting a little wet and sticky. DH was afraid of getting drenched so he only managed to drop one mentos and see how tall it shot up! I would have stuffed the drops myself if I were not taking the pictures :)
Master Prince had a go with the smaller coke bottle - had some reaction but not as tall with the larger coke bottle. A very simple and quick experiment - think it took longer gathering the materials together but FUN all the same!
You can read more here - the MythBusters "concluded that the caffeine, potassium benzoate, aspartame, and CO2 gas contained in the Diet Coke and the gelatin and gum arabic ingredients of the Mentos all contribute to the jet effect".
Hm.....considering a contest on who can make the tallest coke jet, anyone game?
3 comments:
I must be one of the last few ppl on earth who don' tknow about this experiement.
But it's enough to make me rethink taking mentos with diet coke. My stomach may not stand it.
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wow, so this is not a myth. you actually went through the trouble and did this experiment.
I wonder what happens if we drink coke and eat mentos ? Something so common while watching movies. mentos, coke & popcorn.
wow....impressed. bet my boys would be equally ecstatic with this experiment but hor, later they kept on bugging us to buy more & more coke & mentos just for the fun of it, mar cham, LOL??
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