Diet Coke and Mentos: What is really behind this physical reaction?

American Journal of Physics

Volumn 76, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 551-557

  Coffey, Tonya Shea ^a  

^a APPALACHIAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 45549089253     PISSN: 00029505     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1119/1.2888546     Document Type: Article

References (6)

1. Adam Savage and Jamie Hyneman, "Episode 57: Mentos and Soda," Mythbusters, Discovery Channel, first aired August 9, 2006.
2. Steve Spangler, "Mentos geyser-Diet Coke eruption," (www.stevespanglerscience.com/experiment/00000109).
3. Jack F. Eichler, Heather Patrick, Brenda Harmon, and Janet Coonce, "Mentos and the scientific method: A sweet combination," J. Chem. Educ. 84, 1120-1123 (2007).
4. We used a FEI Quanta 200 electron scanning microscope.
5. Pablo G. Debenedetti, Metastable Liquids: Concepts and Principles (Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ, 1996), p. 218.
6. Daniel V. Schroeder, An Introduction to Thermal Physics (Addison-Wesley Longman, San Francisco, CA, 2000), p. 216.