Thread: One upping Dave: A Diet Coke and Mentos Rocket!
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Re: One upping Dave: A Diet Coke and Mentos Rocket!
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Originally Posted by artdutra04
Is it a bad thing when there's a 10 for $10 sale of 2-liter bottles of Diet Coke at the local Super Shop and Shop, especially when you are at a grad party?

I don't know about you, but there is a much more exciting way to watch the Diet Coke/Mentos reaction than watching a ten-foot-high stream of fizz shoot out of the top of the bottle. The Diet Coke and Mentos eruption gets boring after a little while. So why not try a Diet Coke and Mentos explosion?

Yes, that's right, a Diet Coke - Mentos explosion. That said explosion was able to launch a 2-liter bottle of Diet Coke well over 100 feet away using only Mentos. I love it when science is fun.

Here the video: (15 Mb, Windows Media Video)
www.team228.org/video/misc/diet-coke-mentos-rocket.wmv

Legal Disclaimer: If you try this at home, please use common sense and be safe.
The best part about this in my perspective, was I think I was the only one to see it's whole flight, because as everyone else was standing in the driveway, and the bottle flew over the house and a tree, I just happened to be walking back from my car and heard the big bang, and watched the bottle fly and almost land in a open convertible on the opposite side of the house it launched from...
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