Diet Coke Mentos Xkcd Explained

Wouldn t you know that s a coronavirus comic.

Diet coke mentos xkcd explained. When all of this gas is released it forces the liquid up and out of the bottle in a giant whooshing geyser of sticky soda. The father you see actually had covid 19 and died but diet coke and mentos has brought him back. It needs to be wide enough to use as loader for the mentos.

A study in the us has identified the prime factors that. One roll of mentos candies. This comic s premise is a reference to the phenomenon of dropping mentos into a bottle of a carbonate beverage to create a geyser of said beverage.

The diet coke and mentos eruption has also been mentioned in a previous strip 346. Here is a mythbusters video and here is a music video pork and beans by weezer with excessive eruptions. The basic science of the coke and mentos reaction is fairly straightforward.

Steve spangler s televised demonstration of the eruption. During 2007 a large number of videos depicting this phenomenon floated around the internet. For all those who haven t yet seen the diet coke and mentos eruption.

172 69 68 197 17 02 18 april 2020 utc. As a test i hit special random and got 346. The candies catalyze the release of gas from the beverage which creates an eruption that pushes most of the liquid up and out of the bottle.

Cueball wants to show this phenomenon to his friend because it s the coolest thing. A two liter bottle of diet soda diet soda makes for a much better reaction but you can use regular soda if you like. The mentos drops to the bottom of the bottle forming lots and lots of bubbles on its pitted surface along the way.