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World Record Coke/Mentos Video

By Miss Cellania in Video Clips, World Records on Apr 24, 2008 at 11:16 am



(YouTube link)

Yes, there were videos taken at the world record Mentos/Diet Coke demonstration in Leuven, Belgium. There are several on YouTube already, but none that give you a great overall view (yet).


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  1. Eric
    Apr 24th, 2008 at 12:34 pm

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

  2. Christophe
    Apr 24th, 2008 at 12:36 pm

    was this for Earth Day? ;p

  3. Miss Cellania
    Apr 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.

  4. Manticore
    Apr 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

  5. Sofar
    Apr 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.

  6. Eric
    Apr 24th, 2008 at 4:28 pm

    thank you

  7. Alannah
    Apr 24th, 2008 at 8:58 pm

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

  8. morrieD
    Apr 25th, 2008 at 5:07 am

    Great view over the square - big brown wave!

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

  9. fsmarch
    Apr 25th, 2008 at 10:32 am

    Doesn't anyone have anything better to do? LOL

  10. Pol x
    Apr 26th, 2008 at 4:22 pm

    mononucleation isn't it?

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