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Update: That Mentos Ice Cubes In Soda Trick Doesn’t Work
5:20AM Adam Frucci | Sorry, would-be pranksters: freezing Mentos in ice cubes and then putting them in soda doesn’t cause the soda to fizz up. But why doesn’t it work? More »
Random Stuff
Exploding Mentos and Coke Parlor Trick
11:00AM Andi Wang | You’ve either seen the Mentos and Coke experiment on YouTube or you’ve destroyed your kitchen trying it yourself. Wired has come up with a parlor trick that’ll surprise your friends with a delayed explosion time: Mentos, frozen in ice cubes. More »
Entertainment
Turiba University Sets World Record With 1,911 Simultaneous Coke-Mentos Explosions
12:00AM Gizmodo US Edition | Some people celebrate anniversaries with food, or a little dancing, but Business University Turiba in Latvia decided to have a little fun with a Gizmodo favorite: the ol’ Mento in the Coke reaction. For the school’s 15th anniversary, the students set out the break the previous world record for this category, which was held by 1,499 Belgian students in the town of Leuven. Last Thursday, they succeeded, and the contents of 1,911 bottles of Coke were sprayed violently upward, and into history. More »
Science
Science Team Explains Why Mentos + Coke = Whoosh!
12:00AM Gizmodo US Edition | You should, by now, be very familiar with the Mentos and Coke explosion effect. After all, we’ve even shown how to make your own booby trap version. But did you know that parts of the science behind it were a mystery? Until now, that is. A physics team at Appalachian State University did a whole range of tests, varying the substance dropped in from Fruit Mentos to dishwasher detergent and checking all the Coke types. Serious science stuff. More »
Entertainment
Blow Victims Away with Mentos and Coke Booby Trap
10:00PM Gizmodo US Edition | That sound you are hearing is thousands of people screaming after falling for this Mentos and Diet Coke booby trap. And the sound you will hear soon will be the screams of the people who did the traps, as the joke victims beat the crap out of them. [Instructables] More »
Cameras
Mentos and Diet Coke Explosion at 1200fps: Casio EX-F1 Strikes Again
3:30AM Benny Goldman | Giz reader Robert Woodhead combined two things that I just can’t seem to get sick of seeing: Stuffing Mentos into Diet Coke bottles and the super-slow-mo action of Casio’s EX-F1 camera to create this stunningly beautiful video. More »
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