Diet Coke & Mentos – Do-It-Yourself Culture

Mentos & Coke Experiments on EepyBird.com
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A Mentos eruption (also known as a Mentos and Diet Coke geyser, soda geyser or just Diet Coke and Mentos) is a reaction between Mentos candy and cola. The experiment involves dropping several Mentos candies (usually 5–8) into a bottle of diet cola, resulting in an eruption occurring because of rapidly expanding carbon dioxide bubbles on the surface of the Mentos. Producing the reaction has become a popular science experiment and an internet phenomenon, with videos of Mentos eruptions and even Mentos performance art. Although being first started by Kari Byron of the show Mythbusters, the experiment was popularized by Eepybird.com, which promoted a video in which two men re-created the fountain display seen in front of the Bellagio in Las Vegas, NV using a timed series of Mentos geysers. Later Eepybird videos featured "self-actuating" Mentos geysers linked together to form a Domino Rally-style effect.The biggest soda geyser recorded is 34 feet (10.4 meters) as accomplished by the television show, Mythbusters through use of a nozzle. This beat the previous unofficial record of 18 feet (5.5 meters) by Steve Spangler, who has also produced equipment to easily reproduce the experiment for kids. Source: Wikipedia and Eepybird.

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