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Registered Member #164
Joined: Tue Mar 07 2006, 12:07PMPosts: 3146 |
Ok, as seen in my last post, table salt reacts with diet coke even more then mentos. What i want to know is: 1. Other things that react with diet coke 2. What ingrediants make it react 3. Reactions with Club Soda So, can anyone come up with anything? |
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The All-Cum Diet
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Joined: Mon Dec 05 2005, 04:55PMPosts: 1888 |
I found this on teh intraweb. Hopefully, it'll help you... "It's a process called "nucleation," in which the particular chemistry of the Mentos candy interacts with the chemistry of the carbonated Diet Coke, causing the carbon dioxide gas, or CO2, to suddenly come out of suspension in the liquid and make a break for freedom." "There's a cascade that happens with an ion exchange. Basically, the Mentos start to dissolve, and it's like tripping a switch. It's not what you would call a chain reaction, because that's something else in chemistry terms, but it's a cascade whereon all of a sudden, all of the CO2 that was contained in the liquid is suddenly not as attracted to the liquid as it was before, because of this slight change in the chemistry that occurs." "That's not surprising, since we all know how a change in chemistry can cause attraction to wane. But as in many things, a little sweetness can slow the process -- so regular, sugared soda doesn't produce the same reaction." "Sugar molecules are very large, and don't allow this to happen as quickly. That's the key. Sugar is gooey and sticky -- even though it doesn't seem that way when it's in a soda, but there's a lot in there -- and it helps hold onto the CO2 a lot better." "In the case of just plain seltzer water, that doesn't work, because the CO2 already wants to come out." "Mentos, though, isn't the only thing that can make a satisfying diet-soda geyser." "Mentos, which is all well and good, and it works quite well, is actually not the best performer in creating this eruption. Plain old table salt is better." |
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AKA cupcake
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Joined: Fri Aug 04 2006, 03:38AMPosts: 858 |
if you've ever seen the show mythbusters, they did a show on it. | ||
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Joined: Thu Mar 30 2006, 10:42PMPosts: 3167 |
salt? lawl I have to try that. | ||
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Joined: Sat Nov 25 2006, 05:06AMPosts: 76 |
Salt? Gonna try that, | ||
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