Diet Coke and Mentos Rocket

[Raggyman]

Found out about a new party trick the other day. Quickly drop 4 mentos into a 500ml bottle of Diet Coke. You end up with a fountain of coke.

The other thing is that if you get a 2 Litre bottle of Diet Coke, (we used a Freeway Diet Cola from Lidl's (cost 20p). and dropped in whole roll of Mentos, and VERY quickly put the cap on. Wait about 5 minutes or so, and shake it up a little bit. Then really really really quickly undo the cap. You will then get covered in a bucket load of coke, but you will have successfully launched a rocket, and watch it fly..

[Raggyman]

Apparently iceland sell 3 litre bottles of diet coke... now we're talking...

Imagine what would happen if you got a tanker full of diet coke and a couple of carton's of Mentos.... big bada boom...

Edited by Raggyman on Tuesday 20th June 13:27

[Raggyman]

This is the real video....

http://video.google.com/videoplay?doc

[Raggyman]

v8d said:

If we're really going to get stupid here, a certain 2 welding gasses in a balloon (in correct ratio) will rock the whole neighbourhood !! Just be damned careful how you set it off. Sounds like a 105 Howitzer being fired !!! Something to do when you've finally destroyed the microwave creating ball lightning and explosions. If anyones interested, I've found the perfect way to totally destroy a microwave oven in one easy step.......

Would want to be careful, you could end up with an American division invading your back yard looking for weapons of mass distruction.

We use to do the same, had some huge weather balloons, filled with appropriate amounts of gas, and then a couple of sparklers dangling from the bottom of the balloon. A few nervous moments when you were lighting the sparkler let me tell you...

[raggyman]

Got a book about this somewhere... let me find it...