This is our second attempt to reach a 18 ft geyser. We had earlier only managed to get about 6 feet with 4 mentos in a 2 litre Diet Coke.…

We have been seeing a lot of Diet Coke and Mentos reaction videos on YouTube and Google Video. When we went grocery shopping over the weekend, Arkensen said we should try the experiment.

For some reason, all the videos that we saw uses ONLY Diet Coke and Mentos … not any other soda. I guess the reason why Diet Coke is used is because it’s less sticky.

We were not sure how much we need and so we decided to pop in four mentos tablets into a 2 litre Diet Coke bottle.

Arkensen volunteered to have a go. He was very nervous and took some time to calm down his nerves before doing it.

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