Sunday, August 20, 2006
Mythbusters Anti-Disclaimer: DO try this at home!
We tried the Mentos in the Diet Coke experiment. It works best with mint mentos. I wasn't sure how close we should get so the first try was more of a distant shot. You can see our first try here. There is more on the Mentos/Coke experiments on this web site.



Emma thought it was really funny and wanted to do it too. She was grabbing rocks and dropping them in the bottle, but it didn't quite seem to work. Daddy went inside and got two more bottles and more Mentos and let Emma do it herself the next time. You can see her try in the second video.






UPDATE

We had one more bottle to try and our friend was here. Since it takes a second or two for the nucleation effect to begin M. and K. thought they could drop in three Mentos and screw on a cap with a smaller hole drilled in it. Watch what happens...

Written at 4:26 PM by Highlandgal.
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