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R.Wreck
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USA
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 Posted - 07/02/2006 : 15:43:27
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Here's something fun you can do at your July 4th picnic with Diet Coke and Mentos candy.
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Dave W.
Info Junkie
USA
26022 Posts |
 Posted - 07/02/2006 : 15:59:52 [Permalink]
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I can tell you from experience that while it may be safer, it's also much stickier.
And it's a real good way to gum up drill bits. |
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woolytoad
Skeptic Friend
313 Posts |
Posted - 07/02/2006 : 16:45:48 [Permalink]
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| Diet coke has no sugar. It should be much better. |
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Dave W.
Info Junkie
USA
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beskeptigal
SFN Die Hard
USA
3834 Posts |
Posted - 07/02/2006 : 20:07:21 [Permalink]
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| That was may question, why diet coke and not coke? |
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Dave W.
Info Junkie
USA
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Zebra
Skeptic Friend
USA
354 Posts |
Posted - 07/02/2006 : 20:15:52 [Permalink]
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The Mentos don't dissolve - or not much. (Eventually, they do in what little is left of the soda. By then, the fun is over.) Mentos have an irregular surface, thus large surface area, which acts as many nucleation sites for the carbon dioxide to come (rapidly) out of solution.
From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nucleation: quote:
Bubbles of carbon dioxide nucleate shortly after the pressure is released from a container of carbonated liquid. Nucleation often occurs more easily at a pre-existing interface (heterogeneous nucleation), as happens on boiling chips and string used to make rock candy. A demonstration of nucleation using soda and a candy with many nucleation sites can be observed here. [Link is to same video R Wreck linked to above.]
Anything with a large surface area would work, including sand. Trust me, if you do it with regular Coke or Pepsi (as we tried in our backyard, with just one 2L bottle) you do get a sticky mess.
To see an even bigger mess:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rtwwNKqRyxc&eurl |
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Dave W.
Info Junkie
USA
26022 Posts |
Posted - 07/02/2006 : 20:25:08 [Permalink]
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quote:
Originally posted by Zebra
The Mentos don't dissolve - or not much.
There was a surprising amount of dissolving going on with my Mentos. |
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Ricky
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USA
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Zebra
Skeptic Friend
USA
354 Posts |
Posted - 07/03/2006 : 19:20:57 [Permalink]
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quote:
Originally posted by Dave W.
quote:
Originally posted by Zebra
The Mentos don't dissolve - or not much.
There was a surprising amount of dissolving going on with my Mentos.
Dave W, I suspect the difference is that you used Diet Coke and I used Pepsi...so mine was already close to saturated with sugar when the Mentos went in, yours wasn't. |
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Valiant Dancer
Forum Goalie
USA
4826 Posts |
Posted - 07/03/2006 : 19:44:44 [Permalink]
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quote:
Originally posted by beskeptigal
That was may question, why diet coke and not coke?
Are you old enough to remember when the formula for Coke changed?
Diet coke didn't change. It still has the significant battery acid burn we Coke addicts required.
Used to be able to clean pennies with that stuff. |
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Zebra
Skeptic Friend
USA
354 Posts |
Posted - 07/03/2006 : 20:17:26 [Permalink]
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quote:
Originally posted by Valiant Dancer
Are you old enough to remember when the formula for Coke changed?
Diet coke didn't change. It still has the significant battery acid burn we Coke addicts required.
Used to be able to clean pennies with that stuff.
Honey, I'm old enough to remember when Diet coke was introduced. 
Formula change...do you mean in 1985, when they tried to switch to "New Coke" - a Pepsi clone - or earlier, when they replaced some of the cane sugar with high fructose corn syrup?
Here's an idea...drop some Mentos into a fresh bottle of champagne... |
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HalfMooner
Dingaling
Philippines
15831 Posts |
Posted - 07/03/2006 : 20:33:43 [Permalink]
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quote:
Originally posted by Zebra
Honey, I'm old enough to remember when Diet coke was introduced.
Young whippersnappers! (Not you, Filthy.) I remember when the first sodas were sold in cans. I think the first I had was a can of Dad's Old Fashioned Root Beer (or was it Hires?). The cans had conical tops like brake fluid cans, and pop-off tin caps identical to soda bottles. Only later came soda cans that required a "church-key" to open a hole in 'em, like the first beer cans. Later, I remember the first "pull-tab" cans, which ushered in an era notably dangerous for the barefooted. I suspect that soft drink and beer canners were after the hippies.
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Valiant Dancer
Forum Goalie
USA
4826 Posts |
Posted - 07/05/2006 : 05:01:44 [Permalink]
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quote:
Originally posted by Zebra
quote:
Originally posted by Valiant Dancer
Are you old enough to remember when the formula for Coke changed?
Diet coke didn't change. It still has the significant battery acid burn we Coke addicts required.
Used to be able to clean pennies with that stuff.
Honey, I'm old enough to remember when Diet coke was introduced.
Formula change...do you mean in 1985, when they tried to switch to "New Coke" - a Pepsi clone - or earlier, when they replaced some of the cane sugar with high fructose corn syrup?
Here's an idea...drop some Mentos into a fresh bottle of champagne...
The 85 fiasco. |
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