World Record Coke/Mentos Video - Neatorama

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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).

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

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was this for Earth Day? ;p

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

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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

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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.

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thank you

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

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Great view over the square - big brown wave!

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

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Doesn't anyone have anything better to do? LOL

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mononucleation isn't it?

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