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Do YOUR fellow parents know the following yet?

Can your kid beat 1,500 Mentos Soda Geysers?

I remember doing
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this in Camp Ling last summer! If you put a Mentos in a diet soda, you can cause a mini-geyser to erupt (which is ‘way cool).

But here, folks take that to the limit! To wit:

… and the world records just keep rolling in. Finally, the Europeans get into the game and set the bar just a little higher. Here’s the original Mentos Geyser experiment (just in case you’ve been locked away in a secluded cave for the last two years). Judging from the photos, the event was extremely well organized and produced some very impressive soda geysers. It wasn’t all that long ago that the Americans were getting dinged by our friends overseas for wasting their popular Italian/Dutch chewy mint candy along with thousands of liters of Diet Coke. Now, they hold the world record - that must have been their secret strategy! …MORE….

It’s extremely fun to try out. I remember we tested regular Coke as well as Sprint and Fresca - the best results were definitely had with Diet Coke.

Enjoy!

Owlbert

ps - speaking about Mentos:

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