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The startling reaction between Diet Coke and Mentos sweets, made famous in thousands of YouTube videos, finally has a scientific explanation. A study in the US has identified the prime factors that drive the fizzy plumes from Coke bottles: the roughness of the sweet and how fast it plummets to the bottle's base.
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Diet Coke and Mentos eruption - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Both sodas in the 2-liter bottles gave about the same result: Figure 5. Reaction of Mentos with Diet Coke. The reaction of Mentos with Diet Coke is not, as some have surmised, a chemical reaction, and no products other than flat Diet Coke, soggy Mentos and carbon dioxide are produced.
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2-liter bottle of Diet Coke. Wait about 20 seconds, and you will witness a physical reaction in action! The Mentos coating reacts with the Diet Coke to create an explosive combustion effect; ... The carbon dioxide gas pumped into each Diet Coke bottle allows a buildup of pressure in between the liquid and top of the bottle.
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The reaction between the mentos and the soda has nothing to do with acidity. The same thing will happen with any carbonated drink. EVEN SELTZER WATER! ... search up arabic gum and look at what it has a chemical reaction with the olny thing it has a reaction with that is in diet coke is carbon dioxide...
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The question for the Mythbusters wasn’t if it worked, but how it worked. Clearly it had something to do with CO2 and the candy. So Adam and Jamie compared DC (Diet Coke) and soda water. The DC had a much bigger reaction to a single Mento than soda water, ... Tags: Diet Coke Mentos, coke geysers, mentos coke,
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Diet Coke and Mentos: CO2, aspartame, potassium benzoate, and caffeine in the Diet Coke, gum Arabic and gelatin in the Mentos, as well as the tiny pits on a Mentos candy (nucleation sites) are responsible for the explosive reaction of Diet Coke and Mentos...
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The startling reaction between Diet Coke and Mentos sweets, made famous in thousands of YouTube videos, finally has a scientific explanation. ... 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.
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Steve Spangler explains on his site that the explosions are caused not by a chemical reaction between Mentos and Diet Coke (so you can breathe easy about consuming the two together) but a physical one: Mentos are the right shape and weight to break the surface tension of the bottled soda.
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I have a question. What’s with the addition of dry ice to the Diet Coke + Mentos mixture? Does dry ice as a variable have any effect to Diet ... I am doing an expirement with mentos and diet soda of different brands. I want to see if the different soda has a stronger chemical reaction with mentos any suggestions?
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