Gossip Corner: Coke And Mentos
Diet Coke and Mentos Eruption is a reaction of Diet Coke and mint Mentos candies.
In September 2007, the videos, including the “Extreme Diet Coke and Mentos Experiments” video that was viewed more than 10 million times, earned the pair the highest yearly payout of US$ 50,000 from the video hosting service Revver.
Viral Check out what happens when Diet Coke and Mentos mix it up on The Ellen Degeneres Show.
Because of the nature of this chemical reaction and the easy availability of the ingredients, the eruption is a popular subject for Internet videos, and has also appeared in non-Internet sources.
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The eruption is caused by opening a bottle of Diet Coke and dropping a Mentos into the bottle.
Steve Spangler, who first put the Mentos Geyser in the public eye, has several videos and detailed experiments about it on his website.
The eruption has been reproduced many times by popular sources, including the television shows Numb3rs and MythBusters and an appearance by cast member Kari Byron in FHM magazine, an experiment conducted by Bart Simpson on The Simpsons episode, “The Debarted “, an appearance on the Late Show with David Letterman by physics teacher Lee Marek, and others.
The MythBusters later set the record highest soda jet recorded, at over 29 feet , using a nozzle.
Guinness World Records certified the record-setting effort when independent sales representatives from Books Are Fun, a Reader’s Digest Company, simultaneously dropped Mentos into individual two-liter bottles of Diet Pepsi, creating 791 geysers reaching over 29 feet with the use of a nozzle.
Later Eepybird videos featured “self-activating” soda jets linked together to form a Domino Rally-style effect.
The next record was set on April 23, 2008, by students in the Belgian city of Leuven; they simultaneously launched 1,360 Mentos geysers.
Mint is used instead of fruit-flavor Mentos because fruit flavored Mentos have a smooth coating which slows the reaction.
