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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]
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 image is for the DIET COKE and mentos phenomenon's article, it should feature diet coke. --froth t 20:20, 30 August 2007 (UTC) Well it's certainly doable with some generic diet cola instead of diet coke, but this is more of an issue on the name of the article than the picture. -- antilived T | C | G 09:52, 31 August 2007 (UTC) [ reply ]
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."
Unfortunately, all of the mentos packets that I could get my hands on were glazed in some way, and whilst there was a reaction, it was not of the usual violence level, probably due to reduced surface area. JJ Harrison 10:03, 23 June 2013 (UTC) Promoted File:Diet Coke Mentos.jpg--Armbrust The Homunculus 21:56, 26 June 2013 (UTC)
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The current slogan of Mentos is "Stay Fresh", [2] while the line previously used extensively in the 1980s and 1990s was "The Freshmaker". Some Mentos packages describe the mints as "chewy dragées". The typical Mentos roll is approximately 2 cm (0.79 in) in diameter and weighs 38 grams (1.3 oz). "Mentos" is the singular form. [3]