World Record Coke/Mentos Video

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

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

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

   was this for Earth Day? ;p

3. 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.

4. 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

5. 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.

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

   thank you

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

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

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

   Great view over the square - big brown wave!

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

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

   Doesn’t anyone have anything better to do? LOL

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

    mononucleation isn’t it?

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