Mentos Ice Cube Prank - The Hoax!
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Uploaded by SteveSpanglerScience on Jun 15, 2009
It's an e-mail that probably showed up in your inbox... Create an Exploding Drink! The prank is based on the widely known phenomenon of dropping MENTOS® chewy mints into soda to create an erupting geyser. Instead of just dropping the Mentos into soda, the pranksters suggest freezing a Mento in the middle of an ice cube. Serve your friend a refreshing soda drink and garnish with the tainted ice cubes. When the ice cube melts, the Mento is exposed and the soda erupts everywhere. Great idea, right? Readers of the Boing Boing blog suggest that it's a hoax... but no one out of the 600 plus people who posted a comment bothered to try it. We turned Steve Spangler loose to find out if it really works. http://www.stevespanglerscience.com/experiment/mentos-mix-an-exploding-drink-...
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Thumbs up if you see this on Ifunny
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I tried with those "mentos" and didnt work. Someone told me i need to get a diferent type of mentos?
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@ksdlkfjdsg put some salt in water... see what happens with the salt... doh
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can id o this as my science project?
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I sort of just want coke now
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@ksdlkfjdsg Salt wouldn't work either.
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NOTHING!!! XD
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@theCrazyDshow Americans.
1 week ago 6
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How did I get here?
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That guy had all that time to test options, but didn't test putting the Mentos(R) in the water at the water's freezing point so the dissolving (smoothing of the surface) is at a minimum, which is apparently the key to the trick.
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what about a salt cube?
ksdlkfjdsg 2 weeks ago 95
Haha he pours a new glass when there's already like nine full glasses ??
theCrazyDshow 2 weeks ago 31