Mentos and Coke

Everyone's Talking About Mentos Science

Experiment:

1. This activity is probably best done outside in the middle of an abandoned field, or better yet, on a huge lawn.

    

2. Carefully open the bottle of soda. Position the bottle on the ground so that it will not tip over.

    

3. Unwrap the whole roll of Mentos. The goal is to drop all of the Mentos into the bottle of soda at the same time (which is trickier than it looks). One method for doing this is to roll a piece of paper into a tube just big enough to hold the loose Mentos. You'll want to be able to position the tube directly over the mouth of the bottle so that all of the candies drop into the bottle at the same time.

    

4. Don't drop them into the bottle just yet! Warn the spectators to stand back. Okay, you're going to drop all of the Mentos into the bottle at the same time and then get truckin' (move out of the way… so long… bye- bye… hasta la vista!)

    

5. It's just like fireworks on the 4th of July. The spectators erupt, of course, in a chorus of ooohs and ahhhs. Someone yells out, "Do it again" and you do.

NOTE: NO, the e-mail you have received is not true.  Nobody (a boy in Brazil??) died doing this combo >>see here.  … and here!