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A soda geyser is a physical reaction between a carbonated beverage, usually Diet Coke, and Mentos mints that causes the beverage to be expelled from its container. The candies catalyze the release of gas from the beverage, which creates an eruption that pushes most of the liquid up and out of the bottle.
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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 ...
Mentos are available in several flavors including mint, mixed fruit, cola, bubble gum, and in an assortment of orange, strawberry, and lemon. Mentos first appeared as a liquorice-flavored sweet which can still be purchased in the Netherlands as "Drop Mentos". New flavors were initially test-marketed in the Netherlands and throughout Europe ...
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 ...
Another concern about Diet Coke is the phosphoric acid it contains, Volpe says. “In any type of soda that has phosphoric acid, that can actually offset calcium absorption,” Volpe says.
The Diet Coke and Mentos eruption offers another example. The surface of Mentos candy provides nucleation sites for the formation of carbon-dioxide bubbles from carbonated soda. Both the bubble chamber and the cloud chamber rely on nucleation, of bubbles and droplets, respectively.
When asked what her favorite cocktail was, she responded, “Vodka Diet Coke.” As the recipe’s name suggests, the easy-to-make cocktail only consists of two ingredients, vodka and Diet Coke.