The Extreme Diet Coke & Mentos Experiments

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About The Extreme Diet Coke & Mentos Experiments
This is the video that started it all: a backyard experiment became a cultural phenomenon. This is what happens when you combine 200 liters of Diet Coke and over 500 Mentos mints! Click here to read more of the amazing Coke & Mentos story.

How Does This Work?
What makes the soda fly out of the bottle? Will you explode if you drink Coke and eat Mentos? Click here to find out!

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Yes, you can try this at home! You can get your own Coke & Mentos Kit, which includes nozzles just like the ones we use, or you can click here to learn how you can do it with stuff from around your house.

Credits
The Extreme Diet Coke & Mentos Experiments by Fritz Grobe (the short one) and Stephen Voltz (the tall one). Music by AudioBody. Filmed in Buckfield, Maine, home of the Oddfellow Theater. Production assistance from Mike & Kim Miclon. Thanks to Brian & Nancy Bennett.

Anonymous

What a sticky mess!!!!! What a waste!!!!
Snappy P. Fish

What an incredible work of ingenuity and creativity. Congratulations.
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robert martinez

i hope are tax dollars ,is not paying for this.
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Lexie

I soo wanna do that
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dexter

i am a teacher, and i been doing this. i use coke to clean the chalkboards (greenboard/blackboard). it cleans the surface without destroying the paint yet maintaining coarseness of surface.very nice to write.
Mannomann

Good Track, anyway!
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Awesome!!:)
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BIG Bird

it rock big
stupid

OH MY GAMMITT!!!!!!!!!!!!!
stupid

OOOOO SWEET NUGGETS THATS AHHHHHHH-MAZING!!!!!! I WOVE THAT!! HAHAHA LOL YOU MADE A MESS
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BEASTTTT YO!!
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siyince iz a verey kool subjik and i want a phd in it verey much so but my teecher sez i cant
7542lol

i saw this video on the computer and it looks awsome. how did you get the caps off so fast? and how did you ues the string to take the cap off?
Garret

I got an ELP progect on dis lol its suuuuuuuuupppppppppppppeeeeeeeerrrrrrrr fun!!!!
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idk

cooool !
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tat was off the hook!!!!!!!!!!
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hola ppl…i did this at skool….i wanted to drink it afterwards….it looked good..i liked how the eruption was big.
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that is cool
lilly

Wowie! What stiky mess!! And a terribley waste of mentos and soda lol
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d rizzle

Did this my freshman year it was so much fun if you get diffrent types of soda and not just one it was sooooo much fun.. It wasnt a waist i learned alot from it.
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Bubbles

Who pays for all of the equipment? :-O
eepy

Mostly us, but depending on the experiment we have been sponsored by companies too. The original experiment was just us!
sara

That was so cool! You guys are so creative.
kristina

1) what happens if you put one mento in? and how high does it go?
2) what happens when you put two in? and how high does it go?
3) what happens when you put three in? and how high does it go?
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eepy

Test it! We have found that 6 work best. Even when you put more in after 6 it has about the same height.
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dilsia gonzalez

about how high does a explosion with mentos mixed with coca cola go
maria

that was awsome
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Nikiel

All these other guys suck with their comments.I think u awesome.I thought about doing this project at school and wondered what causes the reaction.
samantha

i love eepybird it is aswome and im glad i found it if not i would have got an f-! so thank you stephen and fritz and thank you david lettarman!:)
joan

breathtaking! you DESERVE your lab coats, gentlemen!
Bobbie

Diet Coke & mentos! yeah!
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