Dangerous (Do not drink Coka-Cola and eat MENTOS together)Last week a little boy died in Brazil after eating MENTOS and drinking COCA COLA together. One year before the same accident happened with ...

A famously obsessed chemist has studied the size and shape of the crannies on Mentos candies. He's not alone—scientists, enthusiasts, children, and literally everyone else love this experiment. The ...

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, ...

Conducting the Diet Coke and Mentos experiment at different altitudes—40 ft (12.2 m) below sea level in Death Valley; 6,000 ft (1,829 m) in Zion National Park; and 10,900 ft (3,322 m) in Yosemite ...

A study reveals why Mentos and Coke can be a dangerous combination. June 15, 2008 — -- The startling reaction between Diet Coke and Mentos sweets, made famous in thousands of YouTube videos, ...

Nearly three dozen students at Marblehead Elementary School presented their science fair projects to friends, family and faculty on Jan. 29. Students tested many hypotheses, from finding the perfect ...

Combine Diet Coke and Mentos, and the result is explosive—Diet Coke shoots out of the bottle like a miniature, sticky Old Faithful. The reaction is so intense, you can make a rocket propelled by the ...

Back in 2006, Fritz Grobe and Stephen Voltz—the self-described mad scientists behind Eepybird—ignited an Internet sensation with their viral video of an elaborate version of the Diet Coke and Mentos ...

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 ...

Scanning electron microscope images show the roughness of mint Mentos (top and bottom left) and fruit Mentos (top and bottom right), the scale bars representing lengths from 20 to 200 micrometres The ...