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Bellagio Fountains Recreated with Mentos and Coke

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the truly-a-worthy-expenditure-of-time dept.

Trip writes "What happens when you combine 200 liters of Diet Coke and over 500 Mentos mints? It's amazing and completely insane. The first part of this video demonstrates a simple geyser, and the second part shows just how extreme it can get. Over one hundred jets of soda fly into the air in less than three minutes. It's a hysterical and spectacular mint-powered version of the Bellagio Fountains in Las Vegas."

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  1. What about Carbon Aerogel? by Bananatree3 · · Score: 5, Insightful
    from the eepybird website:

    " If you have a liquid that is supersaturated with gas (like soda, which is pumped full of carbon dioxide), a nucleation site is a place where the gas is able to form bubbles. Nucleation sites can be scratches on a surface or specks of dust - anywhere that you have a high surface area in a very small volume. That's where bubbles can form."


    Call me crazy, but what about using small bits of carbon aerogel? I know its expensive, but with 600 m^2/g of surface area, it would be a perfect canadate!



  2. Re:What.... what? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful
    I think they should have a section called "Slow News Day".

    Yes, god forbid people have fun whilst experimenting. Perhaps you are not familiar with the links between creativity and scientific breakthroughs?

    I forgot this is stone cold /. news for the serious.