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The mentos and coke thing is a reaction between the carbonation and the rough surface of the mentos. The water would dissolve the surface rather quickly, even in ideal scenarios, and as you melt the ice, you wouldn’t be able to re-expose the surface fast enough for a meaningful reaction. Just all around an impractical plan.
If I remember right from a video back when mentos and Coke was all the rage, it wasn’t just the texture of the mentos but there was also a chemical reaction in the combination of the two is what led to the violent reaction.
"The eruption is caused by a physical reaction, rather than any chemical reaction. " https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soda_geyser
" These additives are thought to enhance fountaining by lowering the surface tension of the beverage"
It’s a still a physical effect, not a chemical reaction. The additives allow the physical effect to happen more rapidly because the water has lower surface tension.
So… You’re just being a pedantic ass because I said chemical reaction instead of chemical component (or something to that effect). Really…
My general point still stands. Diet Coke creates more of a reaction with mentos then regular Coke. It is more than just nucleation points on the candy.
It is more than just nucleation points on the candy.
It isn’t more than nucleation points on the candy. I already provided a source. There are many more. Using a liquid that allows nucleation sites to work better doesn’t make it a chemical reaction.
Suppose you have two liquids with different surface tension and each liquid is mixed with marbles. You pour the liquid through a strainer leaving the marbles behind. The fact that each liquid pours at different rates doesn’t make pouring the liquid a chemical reaction. It’s the same liquid before and after pouring. No chemical reaction has occured.
Mythbusters:
That’s not correct, the surface of a single mentos provides nucleation points in abundance for the physical reaction.
That wouldn’t work, the water would change the texture of the mentos before the soda hits it.
Even if it didn’t change the texture, it wouldn’t be a sudden explosion, but a slow release. The ice would melt off, slowly exposing the surface of the Mentos. To get the explosion they want you have to throw the Mentos in quickly.
What if you had piece of ice with an air cavity where the Mentos is placed, then sealed in? I think that might work, bit it’s certainly tricky to set up.
Once the air cavity is breached, you have a few droplets of liquid touching the candy, effusing minor volumes of carbonation and then slowly diffusing with the rest of the soda.
Ok ok, plan B then:
We freeze the end of a rope in ice that they unknowingly throw in their drink. The other end of the rope holds a bucket of water above the chair they sit in. Once the ice melts, the rope will slip out and the water will come down on them. They will never know what happened!
Put two ends of a cable under that person’s chair, once water comes down it will close the circuit, which will in turn cause a piano to fall on their head!
Plan C. We just throw the coke in their face!! PRANK!
Then yell “it’s just a prank bro!” And run off
Would that even work? As the ice melts, only a small part of the mentos would be exposed, with a gradually increasing surface area. But I’d expected it only works because of the whole surface being suddenly exposed.
Why the fuck is there a disk in my ice cube?
They’ll spill in my apartment, don’t they? Or do you regularly gift away ice cubes?
It’s actually a self-prank
If I served my friends soda, they’d not be friends anymore. This establishment isn’t a Chuck E…Cheese and if all I have in the fridge is soda, you’re getting iced water or tea/coffee.
Imagine being too lazy to tend to your guests with what they request, and too cheap to lose $0.08 of your 2L coke. “this ain’t no fancy shit like the rat house, and get your ass your own tp too. fuck washing your hands on my dime, the fuck is this, sears? 50 cents for 5 seconds. wifi? Cent a megabyte. bed? no. get the fuck out at midnight. that includes you babe!”
You prob the kinda guy who would charge $0.54 a mile for ‘business wear and tear’ reimbursement even though your Prius costs $0.16 to go the same distance - and you’re just driving your friend home. Who lives on your street, and you were headed home anyway. “It costs money to be in my aura of greatness! Seatbelt $25 btw.”
If you come into my house, you get water, beer, juice, kombucha, wine, at least five tea options, coffee, or even a scotch if you want.
Cheap would be offering them something that’s full of sugar, artificial flavour, costs me fuck all, and usually comes with a Happy Meal. I don’t insult my friends like that and they wouldn’t do it to me either.
Step up your game. It doesn’t cost much to be a good host.
This is the modern version of telling people “oh, we don’t have a television”
