One upping Dave: A Diet Coke and Mentos Rocket!

[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.

[sanddrag]

That's nothing. Check this out http://my.break.com/Media/View.aspx?ContentID=111469

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[Alexa Stott]

Originally Posted by sanddrag

That's nothing. Check this out http://my.break.com/Media/View.aspx?ContentID=111469

Beware of some of the content on the rest of the site.

Those guys were actually on Letterman last night. And Dave did his own Diet Coke/Mentos demonstration. Of course, one of his guests had to bring up the question about what happens if you eat Mentos and drink Diet Coke at the same time.

[Ted Boucher]

Originally Posted by AtalanteStar25

Of course, one of his guests had to bring up the question about what happens if you eat Mentos and drink Diet Coke at the same time.

Well, it is funny you bring this up. Tonight, 25s very own Corey Balint was used in a small experiment up here in CT. We filled his mouth with diet coke and then dropped a mentos in. The result was... lol... quite funny... he said the diet coke rushed down his mouth and an eruption of fizz came out of his mouth. The end result was diet coke all over the Shaw Family's floor and Corey on the ground, Success? maybe.

[Sam Lipscomb]

Originally Posted by Ted Boucher

Well, it is funny you bring this up. Tonight, 25s very own Corey Balint was used in a small experiment up here in CT. We filled his mouth with diet coke and then dropped a mentos in. The result was... lol... quite funny... he said the diet coke rushed down his mouth and an eruption of fizz came out of his mouth. The end result was diet coke all over the Shaw Family's floor and Corey on the ground, Success? maybe.

Wow. Poor Corey. What a welcome to da Cutt, eh?

[KenWittlief]

Originally Posted by Ted Boucher

Well, it is funny you bring this up. Tonight, 25s very own Corey Balint was used in a small experiment up here in CT. We filled his mouth with diet coke and then dropped a mentos in.

no no no!

you have to DRINK a bottle of diet coke then swallow a chewed up mentos

and we require video!

[anna~marie]

Originally Posted by KenWittlief

no no no!

you have to DRINK a bottle of diet coke then swallow a chewed up mentos

and we require video!

Actually... that is on my list of things to do this summer... not jokin
I'm actually thinking Mentos, then diet coke
Perhaps this week, I don't work nearly as much

[EricRobodox]

Originally Posted by KenWittlief

no no no!

you have to DRINK a bottle of diet coke then swallow a chewed up mentos

and we require video!

Ken, that wont work. Becuase if its chewed up it wont be a catalyst because the powder on the mentos that causes the fizz will be lost. the key is to keep the persons mouth open, make them drink the soda, but not swallow, and then shove a few mentos in really quick. Put duct tape over the mouth quickly and laugh as the soda shoots up his nose from the pressure. I always wanted to grind up sawdust and do this. The powder in sawdust would probably work better than mentos, well, if you made sawdust into a very thin powder.

But i do agree with Ken in that we need a video.

[santosh]

Would this reaction work better if the mentos were crushed? We tried this thing with the 20 ounce bottles. So that didn't work too well. the ottom of the bottle gave out before the cap. And we tried it with a 2 liter but we never had teh cap on right. I think that tomorrow we are going to try that cork idea someone posted up here.

[KenWittlief]

Originally Posted by EricRobodox

Ken, that wont work. Becuase if its chewed up it wont be a catalyst because the powder on the mentos that causes the fizz will be lost.

....The powder in sawdust would probably work better than mentos, well, if you made sawdust into a very thin powder.

please explain futher. I was under the impression that this was vinegar / baking soda type of reaction that causes all the carbonation in the soda to be released.

Powder? Dust ?!

(Strange things are afoot at the Circle K)

[sanddrag]

Originally Posted by EricRobodox

Ken, that wont work. Becuase if its chewed up it wont be a catalyst because the powder on the mentos that causes the fizz will be lost. the key is to keep the persons mouth open, make them drink the soda, but not swallow, and then shove a few mentos in really quick. Put duct tape over the mouth quickly and laugh as the soda shoots up his nose from the pressure.

Sounds dangerous.

[Jay H 237]

Originally Posted by Ted Boucher

Well, it is funny you bring this up. Tonight, 25s very own Corey Balint was used in a small experiment up here in CT. We filled his mouth with diet coke and then dropped a mentos in. The result was... lol... quite funny... he said the diet coke rushed down his mouth and an eruption of fizz came out of his mouth. The end result was diet coke all over the Shaw Family's floor and Corey on the ground, Success? maybe.

So that's what I missed for not sticking around past eleven!

How much diet Coke is left from what was piled in the back of Sam's car?
I hope you didn't get Corey to drink all $74 dollars worth before you tried this!

[Elgin Clock]

Originally Posted by Jay H 237

So that's what I missed for not sticking around past eleven!

How much diet Coke is left from what was piled in the back of Sam's car?
I hope you didn't get Corey to drink all $74 dollars worth before you tried this!

Actually Jay, that happened on Friday night, not Saturday. We still have about 18 bottles left from the ~23 or so we bought on Saturday.

Only a few bottles were used from that pic (of Jay's) on Saturday..

My launching system has some flaws..

Back to the drawing board.

Although.... I did do some "normal" DC&M drops for family and friends on Sunday, and everyone was pretty impressed. I got a 14' stream off one 2 liter bottle. (I did it under a basketball hoop, and it went right through, and over by 4 ft at the hoop's highest setting.)

[Kristian Calhoun]

Originally Posted by Jay H 237

So that's what I missed for not sticking around past eleven!

How much diet Coke is left from what was piled in the back of Sam's car?
I hope you didn't get Corey to drink all $74 dollars worth before you tried this!

That pic reminds me of the first time I stepped foot inside Corey's car. There were liters upon liters of coke on the floor, along with a pack of plenty of rolls of mentos. (much worse than Sam's)

A couple of Team 25 members (myself, Bharat, Alison, Alexa, and Morgan) were fooling around with diet coke and mentos earlier tonight. (Liters of Diet coke were on sale for $1 at the local A&P to our surprise). We made two fountains (which the neighbors across the street inquired about), and made 3 attempts at a rocket, only one of which actually took flight.

[Morgan Gillespie]

Originally Posted by calhounian

That pic reminds me of the first time I stepped foot inside Corey's car. There were liters upon liters of coke on the floor, along with a pack of plenty of rolls of mentos.

A couple of Team 25 members (myself, Bharat, Alison, Alexa, and Morgan) were fooling around with diet coke and mentos earlier tonight. (Liters of Diet coke were on sale for $1 at the local A&P to our surprise). We made two fountains (which the neighbors across the street inquired about), and made 3 attempts at a rocket, only one of which actually took flight.

Yet your pure white "Got FIRST" shirt stayed clean...