Saturday, June 28, 2008

Mentos and diet-coke explained

Finally, scientists have figured out what it is about Mentos and Diet-Coke that creates such spectacular eruptions!

A 2006 Mythbusters episode had it partly figured out. Now students at Appalachian State University have filled in the details. The full story is over at ABC news, here. Make sure you check out the great clip from a world record set for 1360 simultaneous Coke-Mentos fountains.

Thanks to Rob at the Orbiting Frog for spotting this, here. Rob seems to have a soft spot for science experiments that involve food and drink as you can see here (Can crushing) and here (eating a microwave).
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2 comments:

  1. Weird Science KidsNovember 29, 2008 at 12:10 a.m.

    Love the menots diet coke experiment. Did it with my 4 year old this weekend and explained what a chemical reaction and how a volcano erupts. He was digging bigtime. We found another cool site with fun science experiments to do. Will post
    the link below for anyone interested.

    http://weirdsciencekids.com/FunExperiments.html

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  2. Mang (433rd)November 29, 2008 at 8:47 a.m.

    Thanks for the link to an interesting looking site.

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