Talk:Soda geyser

message: Mentos are hard to come by in the UK, and I would imagine other countries outside of north America.  Has anyone tried this with a substitute candy such as might be readily available in other countries such as the UK?  If so how did it compare to the Mentos? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 86.1.57.92 (talk) 00:20, 9 February 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Says mythbusters: table salt also works. 24.107.103.220 15:04, 16 September 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Mint imperials work. Neil ☎ 14:27, 30 November 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Bottle Caps (candy) work too. but I'd assume any chalky candy will work. Weaselboy246 (talk) 08:23, 6 August 2008 (UTC)

text: Mentos originally come from the Netherlands and have been widely available in Europe long before they made it to the US - maybe this once more shows that the UK is indeed, despite all reason, not part of Europe? *scnr* --92.202.110.67 (talk) 12:59, 30 May 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Alternate kandies 

message: I was trying to find out what reaction occurs between the mentos and the diet soda.  This article claims that CO2 is released.  Really?  How do we know this?  This article is a big load of crap.  We don't need "theories" we need test results.  I got 5 bucks says Carbon and Oxygen are split from the CO2 molecule in the soda causing the rapid expansion.  Why do I think this?  Because if you do this reaction and add heat there's a combustion reaction.  CO2 doesn't explode, oxygen does.  Mythbusters isn't the best source of information to be citing.  This article is useless to anyone trying to learn about what it is that actually happens when you put mentos into diet soda.  They might as well just link to the youtube videos.
Mojination (talk) 19:36, 4 October 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Well, a few ideas here. First, I would have to imagine to Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change would be very interested in this if you were right... All of the sources cited (not just Mythbusters) point to nucleation as a primary cause. None of them point to a chemical reaction (which, in your theory, seems to be occurring without any thermal changes...). Additionally, having seen this done, I don't know where all of that carbon would be going, as the soda after the eruption tastes like flat soda (no hint of pure carbon) and carbon gas certainly is not involved at near STP conditions. We have nothing showing this supposed combustion reaction. - SummerPhD (talk) 20:41, 4 October 2011 (UTC)

text: The article also repeatedly talks about a reaction. No reaction here - or at least, the coke might react to the mentos, but it doesn't react WITH the mentos - there isn't a reaction in the chemistry sense.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 31.53.122.103 (talk) 16:21, 21 October 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Scientific Data? 

message: The diet coke has an ingredient in them called glucose which makes the explosion the biggest.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 204.10.220.112 (talk) 19:40, 19 December 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: Glucose is a sugar. Interesting theory, but no. - SummerPhD (talk) 00:57, 20 December 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Glucose  

message: Per WP:IPC, I have removed the trivial primary-sourced list of occurrences in popular culture. - SummerPhD (talk) 00:30, 7 October 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  In popular culture 

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message: Removed the words "huge explosion." Huge compared to what? TNT? Hermanoere (talk) 13:09, 19 July 2016 (UTC)
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