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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. Re:In case of /.'ing by LiquidCoooled · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Even our good old Taco has done one (with Chris Dibona and a couple of others)

    Its available on google video, but tacos Journal entry is here

    This fountain on eepy is amazing though, read the rest of the site because they give a decent explaination of how it works and the various other parameters (hole size, capsule construction)

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  2. Re:According to the site, it's a physical thing by w33t · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I had always assumed it was chemical. Interesting.

    You've given me an idea - I wonder if there is some way to suspend a substance within the fluid and create these nucleation sites simultaneously throughout the supersaturated medium?

    Perhaps some kind of ferrofluid? So you could run a magnetic field over it and cause the nucleation sites to appear which would cause the reaction to happen on a much more instant scale: read, explosive.

    Now, if only I had the material, and the knowledge, and the friends at MIT.
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  3. Re:News for Nerds... by HermanAB · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Sugar in regular cola makes sticky mess - the diet version doesn't.

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