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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 ...
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]
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 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.
EepyBird is an entertainment company best known for creating the viral video "The Extreme Diet Coke & Mentos Experiments" which won the first ever Webby Award for Viral Video in 2007 [1] and was named "Online Game Changer of the Decade" in December 2009 by the readers of GoViral.com as "the most significant online marketing campaign of the decade."
An infographic by The Renegade Pharmacist has surfaced that breaks down exactly what happens while you're drinking a can of Coke. It vividly describes every bodily response that occurs from the ...
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.
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 ...