The science is revealed on what's behind the Diet Coke/Mentos reaction
by Thor on Jun. 13th, 2008
We've chronicled the fun you can have with dropping Mentos candies into two-liter bottles of Diet Coke. Now students at Appalachian State University in Boone, North Carolina, have done the testing to tell us why this is really so much fun. Their conclusions are not the conventional wisdom that was first thrown out there when people started this fun experiments.
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