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Old 01-01-2006, 04:49 PM   #1 (permalink)
 
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Well my uncle saw this video on the internet of something strange, so of course he wanted to try it.
What they did - Put a package of mentos in diet soda, and it erupted over 10ft high.
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Package of Mentos (13 mentos I believe)
2 Leters of Diet Soda
Piece of Paper x2
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Instructions -
Roll the mentos package in paper in a 'hot dog' like roll. Then at the end of the paper, tape it off. Then slip out the mentos package out of this newly created 'tube', open the mentos package, and put them in the tube (with the other piece of paper or cardboard on the bottom).
Next, bring it outside with a 2 Leter bottle of Diet Soda (It should be a cola, but can be any diet kind - even those cheap sam's club ones)
Now is where it gets interesting. Be sure the area around you is safe, and make sure nothing is 5ft within the bottle's radius. Then open the soda bottle slowly, so not too much fizz starts to form. Once you remove the lid, put the tube of mentos over it, with the piece of paper or cardboard not allowing it to enter the soda just yet. Once you're ready, slide out the paper or cardboard, and watch it erupt. When we did it, it got about 10 feet high, it's sort of strange. Just think what it would do to your stomach.. Be sure to ask your parent's permission first lol, I take no fault for this
If I can, I'll put the video on here of what my brother got, it's interesting
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Check this out After seeing that i want to try.
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OMFG that is freaking cool im going to try that when school starts i know my IPC teacher will love that lol.
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Holy crap that song makes me want to kill myself.
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anyone know what caused the coke to "shoot" ?
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What ****** annoying music
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anyone know what caused the coke to "shoot" ?
Soda get its fizz from a gas known as carbon dioxide. When the carbon dioxide is pumped into the soda, water molecules cling to the gas and create tiny bubbles of gas in the liquid. The force holding the gas inside the water is known as surface tension.

It takes a lot of energy to break the surface tension inside soda, but most of you have probably done this by dropping a can and opening it shortly afterwards.

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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yea that music was fair annoying.
lmao took the guy so long to get the mentos in the tonic lmao
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That's probably the video he saw, I'll try to get my brother's camera when he gets back to show one minus nerd and annoying song
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That music just sux.
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