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Postby Halo » Sun Jun 04, 2006 4:26 pm

Not sure if it's real, but Mentos just made my grocery list!

http://media.revver.com/broadcast/27335/video.mov

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Postby Xuric » Sun Jun 04, 2006 4:51 pm

pretty cool.

not sure if it's a good enough excuse to buy Diet Coke, though.

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Postby camk4evr » Sun Jun 04, 2006 11:56 pm

You're talking about the diet coke fountain, right? A friend of mine saw that video and decided to see if it'd really work. It did.

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Postby Sabre » Mon Jun 05, 2006 12:20 am

Does it work with regular coke?

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Postby Blue Phoenix » Mon Jun 05, 2006 9:26 am

Well, coke can eat through teeth, steak, and well, probably if given enough time titanium, no doubt it would chew through a mentos.

I loved it. ^_^

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Postby tralnon » Mon Jun 05, 2006 2:42 pm

.. I want one in my frontyard, going 24/7. The only problem would be funding, and ants. o.O

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Postby Strider » Wed Jun 07, 2006 10:35 am

Wow, I guess I'm the only one with enough mispent youth to have done this trick. Yes, it does work with regular Coke, but it does seem to work best with diet sodas. The artificial sweetener tends to react better with the gum arabic in the Mentos. You can also use Altoids, although the reaction is much less spectacular.

This trick is much preferred to the tricks involving aluminum foil and soda bottles plus muratic acid or Drano to produce explosions...
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Postby Sabre » Wed Jun 07, 2006 3:43 pm

Ha!

Strider, remind me to send a note to your parents so we can showcase just what you've accomplished with the money you spent on higher education.

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Postby Strider » Fri Jun 09, 2006 9:57 am

Well, the universities should know better than to require computer engineers to take two semesters of chemistry. They didn't really think we were going to let that knowledge go to waste did they?

Admittedly, igniting thermite on the front tire of our Calculus professor's new Porsche was probably not our finest hour, but hey...

A bet's a bet...
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Postby Halo » Sat Jun 10, 2006 12:44 pm

Okay, so I was a bit doubtful about the validity of that first link. But then I saw this video, where they film a test run and PROVE this really works!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?search=pep ... aO2BQc9kXk

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Postby Kai » Wed Jun 14, 2006 11:15 am

Here's the original, with more videos from the series of experiments :)

http://eepybird.com/dcm1.html

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Postby roy_vf1s » Wed Jun 14, 2006 2:15 pm

Back in my engineering student days, my entire class for Eng107 was enrolled in the same Chem217 lab class. Or professor made the mistake of showing 25 geeks and 4 anarchists how to create reactions like these, then wondered why, at the end of the year, we spent more time scouring scorch marks off the counters, and sweeping up broken glass, than we did cleaning beakers and checking in gear. :shock:

Strider wrote:Well, the universities should know better than to require computer engineers to take two semesters of chemistry. They didn't really think we were going to let that knowledge go to waste did they?

Admittedly, igniting thermite on the front tire of our Calculus professor's new Porsche was probably not our finest hour, but hey...

A bet's a bet...


The heck is a calculus professor doing with a new porche, anyway? Bopping up in the world to get it or something?

I prefer using an MRE flameless heater in a 20 ounce soda bottle for bad tricks... especially since it releases hydrogen, and we all know what that does...

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