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As a follow-up to the post about Skittlebrau (Skittles in beer), here is another put-candy-in-beverage-and-see-what-happens post….
Evidently, if you add Mentos to soda pop, the soda erupts like a geyser. I mean ERUPTS! The videos below show people doing it and the soda shoots out 10-15 feet from a 2-liter bottle of soda. I bet the first time someone accidentally figured this out there was a HUGE mess. This looks cool enough to try it myself (outside of course). I hate to waste Mentos, but this is in the name of science!
Here is an explanation from The Museum of Hoaxes:
Mentos contains a chemical known as ARABIC GUM (this is the ingredient that makes the mint “chewy”). This ingredient causes the surface tension of the water molecules to break even more easily, releasing more carbon dioxide gas at an astounding rate! …..The gas causes pressure to rapidly build inside the bottle which thrusts the soda upwards in a wonderful fountain-like BLAST!
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Who knew Mentos could be such fun? Not only are they the Freshmaker, they are the Messmaker!
- Video of some newscasters trying it
- Video of a teen trying it with a 2-liter (sound is LOUD – turn down your volume first)
- Video of a teen trying it with a can of soda (not as impressive)
- Choreographed Mentos and soda explosions
- Full Explanation from Museum of Hoaxes
- Mentos website
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MINT IS THE BOMB!!! GRACIAS
We did this in my Chemistry class this past year multiple times. It works REALLY well with DIET coke. Also, it does really well if you are fast about it. Open the bottle quickly, dump all the mentos in, and back off! When we did this in the classroom [inside a little kid pool] we had one of them touch the ceiling! It is a bunch of fun, so if you do it right, you will have great results!
I did this in summer school could you explian to a kid in gr 3-4 and gr6 thanks
But have you checked out what can happen when you mix beer + mentos?
http://www.psstit.com/share/carlsberg-mentos.html
I have a question- is there a difference if I use cold coke or warm coke? (trying to do this as a science experiment) And could it just be regular coke?
Also- what if you don’t use the whole 2 liter, I only plan to use a paper cup size amount of coke. Will it still work?
cool wats up
i tried diet coke and reaguler coke with two mentos diet went 1 foot high and coke2 foot high
hey thomas ya i heard it will kill u from an email forward and it said a boy did not know about the explosion thing and he was drinking coke and eating mentos and about 30 mintutes later his stomach started to bled and he died
i am doing this for my science project.could anyone help?
great sci fair project
dude im doing this for my science fair project, but my teacher is making me time it instead of seeing how high it goes….:p…. at least it better than my project las year…haha i got honorable mention.
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IM TRYING IT
i did this for a science fair project and it was awesome. the highest it went was 20 in. not a lot but it was really cool. people, you really have to try it.
yesterday i did this once and the pop explode it 22ft of the ground with one mento
Its my best scince fair project
I did it in the classroom and the diet cola went all over in the row were i set!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
have you ever tried coke and baking soda it actually explodes!
since this is my science fair project i reasrch that its not the coke that explodes its the co2. if your asking what is co2 , its the fizz inside the bubbles.
HI!!!!
1stly- u cant die from eating mentos and coke.
I’m doing a project on it. I’m using Mug root beer, sierra mist and mt. dew. I’m seeing if the different ingrediants will cause the mentos to shoot the sodas higher.
what will happen if you eat soda and mentos at the same time????
will the same thing happen as the one in the bottle….????
pls….help me im doing it for my science fair project…
do you shake the soda bottle? tell me FAST!! i need it by Thursday Feb. 28.
put some mentos in the balloon and put th balloon on top of the bottle and the balloon will keep growing to all of the acid is all gone out of it
im gonna do it for my science project it works check it out on youtube k good ye lol
im gonna do it for my science project it works check it out on youtube k good ye lol
We want to do mentos and soda 4 our science project and I (cookie & cream) just want 2 see something blow up!!!!!!!!!
we were really good during sciece one week, so our teacher took us onto the feilds and let us try to explode some soda. it didnt really work at first (although ive seen it b4) so she tried to put on the cap and shake it. it went all over our teacher! it was almost a year ago, and we still wont let her forget about it.
do i have to shake the bottle of diet cola and mentos and then put it on the grand and uscrew the cap to get it to erupt or do i just drop the mentos in the 2-liter bottle
i am doing a project for school and i need to research what temp works best i cant find it anywhere help!!!!!!
i want to do something during my science fair…like make something blow up.
does any body have any ideas??
wati faf what does the mentos do?
The reason for the explosion isn’t because of the arabic gum its because of nucleation sites on the surface of the mento which lets carbon dioxide form in to bubbles very rapidly which causes the explosion.
I think the arabic gum is the ingredient that makes the explosion i just checked it out at this website!!!!!! its awesome
btw i love this website!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! its soo cool! i like the picture where the soda explodes like a volcano! lol!
im doing a science fair project on this so thank you for helping
ME AMO CHOCOLATE. Tengo Ambre
I HOPE THIS IS FUN!!!!!
hi my name is marley and i am 15 years old and i am wondering what are the chemicals that react in mentoes and club soda
if you eat a pack of mentos then drink a ton of soda will it still react this way inside of you?
OMG that shizz is tight man DUBSTEP!!!! is awesome yup. mmmhmmm and KLAINE forever. Fo’sho bro fo’sho ok mmm but really this is a great experiment to do and is sooo fun. also you can put it upside down and the bottle will go well y’know, far. xD LOVE, person. Ahemmm Awkward Penguin Moment… Ok ima just leave… ok? ok. uh bye
OMG that shizz is tight man DUBSTEP!!!! is awesome yup. mmmhmmm and KLAINE forever. Fo’sho bro fo’sho ok mmm but really this is a great experiment to do and is sooo fun. also you can put it upside down and the bottle will go well y’know, far. xD LOVE, person. Ahemmm Awkward Penguin Moment… Ok ima just leave… ok? ok. uh byeee
OMG that shizz is tight man DUBSTEP!!!! is awesome yup. mmmhmmm and KLAINE forever. Fo’sho bro fo’sho ok mmm but really this is a great experiment to do and is sooo fun. also you can put it upside down and the bottle will go well y’know, far. xD LOVE, person. Ahemmm Awkward Penguin Moment… Ok ima just leave… ok? ok. uh byeeee
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What were they thinking? Anyone can leave their turdd here like Im doing and Its a bunch of crapp. Wow im blowing it up and idgaf
I am Chuck Norris.
ok?