blush Posted April 3, 2006 Share Posted April 3, 2006 I'm pretty sure the Mentos + Diet Coke experiment is well-known on the Internet. What I want to understand is how Mentos candy affects the Diet Coke via eruption. I did some Googling on gum arabic, which some say is the ingredient that fuels the reaction, but others say it isn't. I know gum arabic is an ingredient of Mentos, but I don't know how it relates to the carbon dioxide gas of soda beverages. Others also refute the "diet" part of the soda, as in, it doesn't have to be diet or whatever. Diet soda beverages are preferable because they contain aspartame. I looked up the definition of aspartame, but I don't understand why or how aspartame makes it easier for Mentos to create the explosion. If anyone could better explain the reaction of Mentos + Diet Coke to me, I'd be much grateful. I chose to do this as my science project and I'd love to understand the topic more before actually carrying out the experiment myself. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Black Hawk Posted April 3, 2006 Share Posted April 3, 2006 (edited) According to Numb3rs, something about the gum (more like the mint in the gum hypersaturating something) weakining the surface tension which causes the gases (carbon dioxide) to escape very rapidly. I think they use Diet Coke because it may have more carbon dioxide (atleast it feels like it). Edited April 3, 2006 by Virtues of Evil Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blush Posted April 3, 2006 Author Share Posted April 3, 2006 Wow, thanks for your reply! :) I'm a bit curious about gum arabic though. Don't soda beverages also have gum arabic as an ingredient as well? So does that mean having more gum arabic (hence adding the Mentos) affect the experiment, like twofold? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thermal+paste Posted April 3, 2006 Share Posted April 3, 2006 cool ? happens if u drink entire bottle then eat 13 mentos ? death? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blush Posted April 3, 2006 Author Share Posted April 3, 2006 ^ My project partner had her brother drink Diet Coke while he had Mentos in his mouth. The liquid somewhat basically came leaking out of his mouth. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
~WinGz~ Posted April 3, 2006 Share Posted April 3, 2006 this can be done with several sodas, their reactions may not be the same power but ive seen it doen with regular pepsi, and coke. It has something to do with hypersaturating as stated above. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
metallithrax Posted June 5, 2006 Share Posted June 5, 2006 Heres another video of the reaction http://eepybird.com/dcm1.html The Bellagio Fountains (using Diet Coke & Mentos) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Galley Posted June 6, 2006 Share Posted June 6, 2006 Kari Byron does it better! :wub: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dreamz Veteran Posted June 6, 2006 Veteran Share Posted June 6, 2006 ^^ no wonder so many guys here are mythbusters fans! that's one neat experiment, though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Echilon Posted June 6, 2006 Share Posted June 6, 2006 There was a video floating around a while ago with some guys who tried this. If you put the top on you have a pretty powerful bomb. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daem0hn Posted June 13, 2006 Share Posted June 13, 2006 ^ a handful of dry ice with a little water in an empty bottle that is screwed shut has the same 'explosive' effect with regards to the mythbusters pic, is it photoshopped? i seem to remember her being fully clothed on the show :p Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jackwanders Posted June 13, 2006 Share Posted June 13, 2006 ^ a handful of dry ice with a little water in an empty bottle that is screwed shut has the same 'explosive' effect with regards to the mythbusters pic, is it photoshopped? i seem to remember her being fully clothed on the show :p that photo is from a photoshoot for Maxim, FHM or some other guy mag. I think FHM. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deadlydread Posted June 14, 2006 Share Posted June 14, 2006 http://www.eepybird.com/dcm1.html Wonderfuly done. lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shof Posted June 14, 2006 Share Posted June 14, 2006 how many mentos does it take to create aton of topics about these? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Edrick Smith Posted June 14, 2006 Share Posted June 14, 2006 I posted this a week ago :-P Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deadlydread Posted June 14, 2006 Share Posted June 14, 2006 Blame Yahoo for the late posting then :p :shiftyninja: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kerm Posted June 14, 2006 Share Posted June 14, 2006 I hadn't seen it thanks. Thats brill. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tony-inpo Posted June 14, 2006 Share Posted June 14, 2006 Amazing, they must have been sticky after that :p Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HoochieMamma Posted June 14, 2006 Share Posted June 14, 2006 That was really well done. Awsome (Y) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ozgeek Posted June 14, 2006 Share Posted June 14, 2006 I just wanted to know how to download that video to disk. That's amazing! I thought about doing some to show my family. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigDaddy Posted June 14, 2006 Share Posted June 14, 2006 That's really amazing :blink: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HoochieMamma Posted June 14, 2006 Share Posted June 14, 2006 I just wanted to know how to download that video to disk. That's amazing! I thought about doing some to show my family. http://media.revver.com/broadcast/27335/video.mov Adblock has it's advantages (Y) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ozgeek Posted June 14, 2006 Share Posted June 14, 2006 Thanks. I just wanted to download it for my on-dialup-connection sister. :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Master Shake Posted June 14, 2006 Share Posted June 14, 2006 holy effing crap! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Erez.B Posted June 14, 2006 Share Posted June 14, 2006 F***ing Amazing~!!!!!!!@#@#!@#$!@#% Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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