The hands-on experiment involves dropping several Mentos Chewy Mints into a bottle of Diet Coke, which can cause a stream of the diet cola to shoot many feet into the air within seconds. In an email, ...

Dropping Mentos candies into Diet Coke is one of the most popular urban legends and home experiments. If you eat them together, it’s supposed to kill you (it doesn’t, of course ... but we still don’t ...

Five pounds of Mentos candy and 70 bottles of Diet Coke is a recipe for a sure mess, but also a whole lot of fun. Fourth graders at Brooks Global Studies School in Greensboro tested out the science ...

We’ve all seen this trick, but how and why does it work? Meteorologist Samantha Jacques explains the science behind the Mentos and Coca-Cola reaction, and how you can try this exciting experiment at ...

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A science editor is marketing a toy that lets you re-create the fountain effect show in the famous YouTube video. Photos: 'Triggering' Mentos into a Coke bottle Greg Sandoval covers media and digital ...