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The Diet Coke and Mentos geyser experiment became an internet sensation in September 2005. The experiment became a subject of the television show MythBusters in 2006. [ 13 ] [ 15 ] Spangler signed a licensing agreement with Perfetti Van Melle , the maker of Mentos, after inventing an apparatus aimed to make it easier to drop the Mentos into the ...
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The Diet Coke and Mentos eruption experiment was first televised by Spangler in 2002 and became popular on the Internet in 2005. [5] More than a thousand videos appeared online replicating the experiment. [5] Spangler was nominated for the Time 100 in 2007 because of the experiment. [4]
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Mostly because the (uncolored/unglazed version of) Mentos provides nucleation sites for the dissolved carbon dioxide in the Diet Coke to escape as a gas. Other active ingredients in the cascade-effect reaction include aspartame ( artificial sweetener ), potassium benzoate ( preservative ), and caffeine in the Diet Coke, and gum arabic and ...
The Diet Coke and Mentos experiment is also an outlier regarding their safety warnings, as Savage and Hyneman stated on-air that this myth was perfectly safe for viewers to replicate on their own. Another example of this is the " Phone Book Friction " episode, in which they investigated the difficulty of pulling two telephone books apart after ...
The video above shows the awesome combo of the two and the incredibly detailed result. The genius behind the video was hoping the "coke would boil off, and the syrup left behind would auto-ignite."
This myth is based on an internet video where a man ingested both Diet Coke and Mentos and fell unconscious, reportedly from a ruptured stomach. When this myth was tested with a pig's stomach, it was learned that the simple act of drinking the soda released much of the carbon dioxide within it, preventing the expected cascade of foam the Mentos ...