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[Nitroxextreme]

you have got to love the old Cola and Mentos reaction

[Billfred]

I suppose my instinct to read the image description is faster than it takes to judge and post a new caption contest.

Wait, I still saw it... (hunts down his Neuralizer)

[Jessica Boucher]

"Dave School"??

[Greg Marra]

I think that Diet Pepsi works a bit better than any other soda. You might want to keep that in mind incase you ever decide to build a soda-and-mentos-propulsion system

[Nick Bailey]

funny, we did the same thing at our shop a couple weeks ago while working on the ball drop.

[Alex Pelan]

Hahaha...this is a favorite pastime of my group of friends. We've been working on turning it into an s-dub tradition. Diet coke is the best, though

[Tytus Gerrish]

i just did that in out shop a week ago and it was too dark to take a picture.

[MissInformation]

We did two bottles of diet coke first and then a bottle of root beer and then coke. The first bottle of diet coke was absolutely spectacular! I took a video of it so I have no photos of it, however I believe the diet coke reached a height somewhere between 8 or 10 feet. The second bottle of diet coke was good but not as good as the first, partially, I think, because half of the mentos ended up on the ground rather than in the soda. Second diet coke. As you can see, the shapes the exploding soda took on are really, really cool! I've never been this excited about diet coke before!

I want to do more of these for two reasons, the first being, it's just fun to turn a 2 litre bottle of soda into a geyser, and two, I think it would be cool to get some super closeup photos of the soda as it erupts.

How many other sodas have any of you tried it with? Sprite/diet? Dr. Pepper/diet? Ginger ale/diet? Diet root beer? Mountain Dew/diet?

Heidi

[JBotAlan]

We accidentally discovered this reaction at new years. My brother put Spree into a bottle of caffiene-free Pepsi, and it shot all over his bed...it was really funny! We tried to recreate this, but it didn't really work. It was great seeing the geyser of Pepsi shooting all over him, though!

[Kris Verdeyen]

Someone please tell me what to do. I slept through 2-liter chemistry in high school, but now I see the error of my ways. I gather that the ingrediants are Mentos and Diet Soda, but I lack the procedure. Someone who's hip, please clue me in.

[JBotAlan]

Originally Posted by Kris Verdeyen

Someone please tell me what to do. I slept through 2-liter chemistry in high school, but now I see the error of my ways. I gather that the ingrediants are Mentos and Diet Soda, but I lack the procedure. Someone who's hip, please clue me in.

1. Take the Mentos (or Spree, they work the same) in your right hand.

2. Open the bottle of Diet Coke.

3. Position your right hand over the neck of the bottle so that the Mentos are directly above the bottle.

4. Open your fingers so that the Mentos drop into the Coke.

Voila!!!

Sorry, couldn't resist making a procedure for this...lol

JBotAlan

[phrontist]

It looks like dave used a tube to drop them in... I think you need to use a few to really get a good reaction!

What is the story with "Dave School"? I saw him wearing that shirt yesterday...

[ctshirk7]

i saw it the other day too maybe its just a way of saying daves cool...
this looks like a fun destructive passtime... we might not get much done today...

[Elgin Clock]

Originally Posted by JBotAlan

1. Take the Mentos (or Spree, they work the same) in your right hand.....

What if you are left handed? Does the procedure depend solely on holding the object in your right hand?

Will there be no chemical reaction if you hold it in your left??

Cause.. that would be weird.