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I know it's been long since my last post , here is something that most people would have known and for those who done this before like me, kekeke.....Diet Coke + Mentos = BOOM...I'd tried this long time ago, if I'm not mistaken during form 4. Quite interesting and exciting, although we didn't manage to get it very high, come on la, it's our first time doing this.

Doing nothing but watching television, keep changing the channel until the one that caught my attention and suddenly...Mythbusters!!!! They were trying to know why does dropping Mentos into a bottle of Diet Coke create a geyser effect ? Although some of their experiments were quite boring but it let us know things that we didn't think before. Through various tests with one factor after another, they came up with a logical conclusion, that's mostly because the (uncolored/unglazed version of) Mentos provides nucleation sites for the dissolved carbon dioxide in the Diet Coke to escape as a gas. Other active ingredients in the cascade-effect reaction include aspartame (artificial sweetener), potassium benzoate (preservative), and caffeine in the Diet Coke; and gum arabic and gelatin in the Mentos. The ingredients seem to have a perfect compatibility with each other and, when mixed together and added to the nucleation, creates a chemical reaction that forces the soda to release all of its dissolved carbon dioxide at once, thus causing a more violent eruption than carbonated water alone.Here's two videos, one's when I was form 4 and the other i get it from youtube. Have a nice day.....6 more days to go....