Today's video is pretty blurry but it does show a pretty cool trick. The guy has two one liter bottles of soda and a box of mentos. It appears to be on some TV show with a reporter. Anyway he puts 13 mentos in a test tube and then holds them above the open liter bottle of soda using a business card. When he pulls out the business card and lets the mentos fall into the bottle of soda it explodes. As in there is a giant eruption of soda out of the bottle around 20 feet up into the air. So what causes that? The citric acid on the mentos reacts with the carbonation? The guy alludes that this is what happens but doesn't go into the specifics.
Today's video is pretty blurry but it does show a pretty cool trick. The guy has two one liter bottles of soda and a box of mentos. It appears to be on some TV show with a reporter. Anyway he puts 13 mentos in a test tube and then holds them above the open liter bottle of soda using a business card. When he pulls out the business card and lets the mentos fall into the bottle of soda it explodes. As in there is a giant eruption of soda out of the bottle around 20 feet up into the air. So what causes that? The citric acid on the mentos reacts with the carbonation? The guy alludes that this is what happens but doesn't go into the specifics.
