World Record Coke/Mentos Video

• Eric
  April 24th, 2008 at 12:34 pm

  can someone please explain why Mentos have that reaction with Diet Coke.

• Christophe
  April 24th, 2008 at 12:36 pm

  was this for Earth Day? ;p

• Miss Cellania
  April 24th, 2008 at 1:22 pm

  Eric, I don’t know the details, but I know it’s the reaction of the gum arabic in the candy.

• Manticore
  April 24th, 2008 at 3:33 pm

  they explained it on mythbusters. it has to do with the texture of the candy, the aspartame and the caffiene if I remember. just run a youtube search for mythbusters diet coke mentos

• Sofar
  April 24th, 2008 at 4:23 pm

  Yeah, the surface of the candy acts as a catalyst, it has millions of tiny pits in which gas bubbles can form. Aspartame has a bad effect on the stability of the carbon dioxide-water solution, making diet Coke more liable to release all its gas at once than regular Coke.

• Eric
  April 24th, 2008 at 4:28 pm

  thank you

• Alannah
  April 24th, 2008 at 8:58 pm

  It would have been much cooler if it were a mentos-diet coke mixing flash mob.

• morrieD
  April 25th, 2008 at 5:07 am

  Great view over the square - big brown wave!

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K3wQsLTYL1I

• fsmarch
  April 25th, 2008 at 10:32 am

  Doesn’t anyone have anything better to do? LOL

• Pol x
  April 26th, 2008 at 4:22 pm

  mononucleation isn’t it?

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