Diet Coke vs Mentos

Hope this hasn't already been posted, 'cauuse I was too lazy to do a seach...

Funny stuff... And a little chemistry.

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I've seen several videos of this on YouTube and Google Video. Pretty awesome considering the soda can shoot that high.
For those of you wondering about how it happens, IIRC it's the arabic gum in the Mentos. I've heard Certs work well, too, but I haven't seen it done.

 

No it's not the gum arabic. http://eepybird.com/science1.html

 

Well, it's part of it according to that, so what I found was sorta close.

 

Someone decided to try it with Pepsi, with tragic results:

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8694244338798619086

 

And as usual some people take it too far

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-197826019194600575&q=diet+coke+and+mentos

 

Man, this is whack! Who ever thought of mixing these together? Has anyone searched the web for this? There's tons of crap on it. We heard about it on the radio, heh?

Anyway, eepy bird, you tube and google show some sweet vids, but check out The Diet Coke Mentos Experiment. They've rated some of the top 5 vids.

Geekster