Best use of a diet coke I have ever seen. Stuff taste nasty.

This is so fun! Can’t wait to show it to my 2 homeschooled kids!! lol We are definitely going to be doing this at least 1 time … I like my mentos and diet coke too much to have it all spray out on the ground … lol

Not sure if you guys ever read this, but I wonder what would happen if you take normal diet coke and over carbonate it by adding more CO2 and lowering the temperature. The increased pressure and lower temperature would increase the solubility.

Beware not to mix them in your body !!!
Ive heard of people diying because of drinking cola diet and then eating mentos

I always thought that an increased temperature meant an increased capacity for a solute within a solution. It turns out gas is opposite, like Dave said… This makes me wonder if the overall capacity is greater but because of the increased kinetic energy there is a greater increase in the rate that the dissolved gas comes out of solution. That in turn makes me wonder if increased temperature (to increase capacity) combined with increased pressure (to reduce the rate the gas comes out of solution) could force more gas into solution. Then once it is saturated cool the liquid so that when the pressure is reduced the rate the gas comes out of solution is reduced. If the whole thing is prepped by doing it in a fashion that minimizes the number of nucleation sites until you drop in the mentos, that should theoretically maximize the amount of gas that comes out of solution at that point and thereby maximizes the “whoomp”…

There could be a flaw in this logic somewhere if my concept of how gas-liquid solutions work is flawed…

How do you explain Coke (or any fizzy drink) with Ice Cream?

Another little known use of Coke is to clean model airplane engines!!! a really gunked up engine placed in a glass container filled with Coke and the put in a microwave comes out clean and shiny but aluminium gets a lot darker. The Coke tastes even worse than usual!!

Years ago when I worked at a service station, we used to clean battery cables and posts with Coke. They looked like new after a few minutes in Coke.

I saw a similar thing when I was in grade school in 1959. One of the girls in my class had a can of soda and a packet of Lik-M-Aid candy. The candy was in powdered form, similar to the Pixy Stix that were sold in later years. She poured the Lik-M-Aid into the soda and the can erupted, making a nice mess all over the desk. The teacher was furious.

what if you were to some how shake the soda before adding mento’s. you know how you drop a can of soda, and if you open it emediatly afterwards it will erupt. do you think it would make even more presure? oh and one other thing, i see how you drop a piece of mento’s in the soda, what if the mento’s was in a powdered form would it have a bigger reaction?

i’m going to do this for my school science project awesome!
and i am stupid enough to eat mentos and drink diet coke!!!!!!

@brian, solid form is better coz’ its heavy enough to sink to the bottom. if you put powdered form it will just fly away after a few seconds and your show is finished unlike solid form that will last for a couple of seconds.

I tried this and it was so much fun i even showed it at school who came up with this stuff???

It is very useful for me to know about the reaction between mentos and coke

brian says:
July 4, 2010 at 7:07 am

what if you were to some how shake the soda before adding mento’s. you know how you drop a can of soda, and if you open it emediatly afterwards it will erupt. do you think it would make even more presure? oh and one other thing, i see how you drop a piece of mento’s in the soda, what if the mento’s was in a powdered form would it have a bigger reaction?

Probably not. The reaction is caused by CO2 forming on the surface of the Mentos. If you shake the soda, all you do is release CO2.

Less CO2, less reaction between CO2 and Mentos.

Just wondering weres the steps to show u how to do this?

by the way great website

it’s really fun n yeah

What about making coke and mento rockets
You open the cap and tape about six mentos to the cap and close it.
Then throw it down really hard on the cap and it will fly up really high!
But Is it better to shake it or just put it upside down?

this is for my science fair….thanks for the great info,wish me luck on going to reginals!!!

Thanks for the information I have a project at school and I need to find out how you can get away carbon dioxide and you say so with mentos but what’s in mentos that takes carbon dioxide away? My englisch is not very good but I hope you understand me. please let me know something.
byebye

The reason Coke cleans so well: Coke is high in acid. Even trains carrying Coke syrup have to have haz-mat symbols in case of spills!

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i memmber when i did dis in 5th grade

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awsome

hello,i did this at school and i felt like drinking it looked kewl.

what is nucleation?

[...] It’s mostly due to a process called nucleation, where the carbon dioxide in the soda is attracted to the Mentos (they are awfully cute). That creates so much pressure that the soda goes flying. We then built nozzles that make the opening smaller and that makes the geysers go even higher.(http://www.eepybird.com/featured-video/science-of-coke-mentos/) [...]

wonderstrucking!

Im doing this for my science fair project! Wish me luck!

Great information! We had a great time trying this out with many other types of soda. Who wrote this artice? I would like to use it in a bibliography and name the author.

What are some common reasons the experiment might NOT work?
We got very little fizz.
We had the coke at room temp.
Coke bottle was not previously opened.
Mentos were carefully drilled.
Bottle was 2-liter, cartridges had 5 mentos each.
Thanks!

im doing this for my 5th grade science fair project:]

I tried this out for a science project. It was really awesome and my Dad loved it. He had never seen anything like it.
It was all thanks to EepyBird.com because I just happened to click on your website from Google. Thank you!!!

what happens when it reaches your stomach? what is the chemical reaction inside your body???

what would the effect actually do to your insides? inside your stomach?

When I left the bottle open and tried it with little fizz nothing happened,nut when it was just opened and put in it came up about a 1 foot geyser

just saw someone saying they are going to do this for a project… just doing one myself and all I can say is that between this and the mythbuster’s episode you’ll have all the info anyone could posibly need. (and i sugest using some of the mythbuster footage if your putting together a video)

cool

ima use dis fur my science experiment

What a nice way to waste Diet Coke and Mentos.

Awesomeness. Great experiments and well done website. Made me and my kids smile lots

if coke and mentos can harm our stomach if taken both at a time?

diet coke tastes great i did the experiment and then drank the gyser

Im awesome at this peoples good luck to anyone who will be doing this two

Does the temperature of the soda effect the hieght of the fizzing?

im doing this for my science fair… i dont understand it at all

Would this be a good science project??

Thank you soo much, this page helped alot.. Especially with my Science Fair experiment

Yes it will i have tried it.. Its lots of fun.. The more Mentos candies, The bigger explosion

i did this at cub scout day camp a couple of summers ago. we had a BLAST!! the scouts loved it and the geysers were phenomenal.

Hopefully, it will imbue the powers of spelling and grammar…

i am doin this for my science fair project !!! soo i need details ppl ???

hi

i love them

Though it’s a shame to waste a good beverage, i’ll try Mentos in Champagne ! Will keep you posted…

lmao. awesome reply.

what other candies would work

This is a great alternative to fireworks for New Year’s Eve. Trust me.

nothing will happened you will just have to wash it

I am doing this as a science fair project as well…..

cool

Thanks, this really helped with my research paper for my science fair project.

This better workk!!!! I have to do it 4 a science project!!!!

this look so cool click on utube watch the video

what would happen if you put on the cap after dumping all the mentos in it?

me to

what would happen if you pour coke in a bowl and add 20 mentos in it

if the ‘effect would last a little longer the machine would be perfect coke and mentos

if the ‘effect would last a little longer the machine would be perfect coke and mentos

I did this experiment, it was super-duper fun!!!

ineed it to work for a school project

Little fizz
, Make sure your using diet coke and mint mentos.

fun project

im doing a since fair and it helps alot

wow, this really worked, good project for me 2 work on(:

loving it!!!!

it works…but man, i hate getting covered in soda. USE COKE ZERO UNLESS YOU WANNA SMELL LIKE A ROTTEN CANDY BAR!!!

okay that was posted like a year ago…but if you get htis, that was so sciency-y. nice.

omg i did the thmg adn it wrkd but i totally sprayed my dog and she hates me now lol

sup, im doin’ this for a project at school

my mom is mad at me tho

you know you really shouldnt say words like that on here,im looking to see if it works and half the post have got some pretty bad words!!!!!!!!

fuck you

me to

Me too!!!!!!!!!!!!

i have a question, i started with 12 oz of soda and then put mentos in and ended up with 12 oz eventhough it overflowed….does anyone know why?

before you call somebody faggot, you should at least get the spelling correct, asswipe.

nope

i hope it works

This is so cool! i used something like this for my school science project, and, surprisingly, my teachers accepted it, and i got an A+!!!!! Big thumbs up!!!! !! What’s cool about these guys is that they take something everyone knows about that’s stupidly easy, and give it a twist to make it brilliant and seemingly impossible, but i still love it!!!!! !!!

Oh my god, you sick asshole!!!! This is a freakin’ KID’S website!!! Lay off!!!

Lay off, u bitch! She’s just saying that it was helpful!!!

really. This is your question u wasted all of our time on???

hell yah!!!

thats a really question… just do what i do.. look it up on WikiAnswers!

baisically any… i tried, but none as well as Mentos

u basically fart ur ass off lol

you, my friend, are what we (in California) call:
a.) a drunk motherfucker
OR
b.) some slut/douchebag impersonater

yeahhh…. so, thanx 4 wasting our time….

ummm….ur brain is basically shit, u know, right??

i do too

Lets see if this works.. if not, im gonna get a ‘C’ for my science project.

me too but i need the biography

sooo…. how’d that work out? i’d love to get drunk with you… and maybe lose a few articles of clothing… and sleep with someone new tonite… and get some real action…….

ummm… you wash it. Amazing right???? God. suck a dick, loser

ummmmmmm……… how exactly can u NOT get this thru ur thick skull?

SUCK A DICK, U MOTHERFUCKER!!!!!!! What the Hell’s wrong with u?!?!??! Go have sex with your Mom!!

i just used this for a science project! It definitely works.

me to a science fair

i have to do this shit for school

Well, nobody has wished him luck yet…. lol. Good luck!

i hope dis work because my project is due in 3 days and i really need an A+ ok

wow i really think this is cool. i am doing it for a science project, i hope it goes well.

lame

this is gonna be my science project hope it works!!!1:)

sweet im goona try this

im gunna try this and set it all off in a big explosion at the science fair

Yah Right!

I should turn this in to my science teacher without telling her what it is.HEHEHE!!!

thANKS for the help

me too

it works you silly woman