By carefully drilling holes in the bottle just above the soda level, we get a multi-spray Diet Coke & Mentos fountain that we call a crown. We had the great idea of hanging a crown from a twisted rope so that, as the rope untwists, the crown spins.

It seemed like a good idea at the time...

How Does it Work?

What makes the soda fly out of the bottle? Will you explode if you drink Diet Coke and eat Mentos? Click here to find out...

Credits:

Experiment #13A, by Fritz Grobe (the short one) and Stephen Voltz (the tall one). Music by Audiobody. Filmed in Buckfield, Maine, home of the Oddfellow Theater. Thanks to Brian & Nancy Bennett.