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[-] Artyom@lemm.ee 101 points 9 months ago

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.

[-] CaptPretentious@lemmy.world 4 points 9 months ago

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.

[-] Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world 13 points 9 months ago

"The eruption is caused by a physical reaction, rather than any chemical reaction. " https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soda_geyser

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[-] Telodzrum@lemmy.world 9 points 9 months ago

That’s not correct, the surface of a single mentos provides nucleation points in abundance for the physical reaction.

[-] threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works 4 points 9 months ago

Would you be able to find the video? I had never heard of this, and can't imagine what "chemical reaction" could occur beyond the carbon dioxide simply coming out of solution.

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[-] McLoud@lemmy.world 97 points 9 months ago

That wouldn't work, the water would change the texture of the mentos before the soda hits it.

[-] Isoprenoid@programming.dev 36 points 9 months ago

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.

[-] Snazz@lemmy.world 10 points 9 months ago

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.

[-] binomialchicken@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 9 months ago

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.

[-] aksdb@lemmy.world 34 points 9 months ago

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!

[-] hsr@lemmy.dbzer0.com 15 points 9 months ago

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!

[-] Igloojoe@lemm.ee 9 points 9 months ago

Plan C. We just throw the coke in their face!! PRANK!

[-] StopSpazzing@lemmy.world 6 points 9 months ago

Then yell "it's just a prank bro!" And run off

[-] wreckedcarzz@lemmy.world 6 points 9 months ago

Smh soda needs to get on board and stop being a little bitch with its soda-tongue pickiness. Try something new, soda.

[-] LinyosT@sopuli.xyz 1 points 9 months ago

I did

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[-] bleistift2@feddit.de 68 points 9 months ago

They’ll spill in my apartment, don’t they? Or do you regularly gift away ice cubes?

[-] underwire212@lemm.ee 27 points 9 months ago

It’s actually a self-prank

[-] Kase@lemmy.world 5 points 9 months ago

The real prankster is OP

[-] ech@lemm.ee 4 points 9 months ago

People drink soda other places than indoors.

[-] underwire212@lemm.ee 3 points 9 months ago

Hwat is this so called “other place” that’s not indoors?

[-] Dave@lemmy.nz 35 points 9 months ago

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.

[-] Neato@ttrpg.network 21 points 9 months ago

I'm more wondering how you freeze them all so without dissolving.

[-] wreckedcarzz@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago

Quickly.

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[-] satanmat@lemmy.world 12 points 9 months ago

No. As the soda would lose most of the carbonation pouring it into the glass

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[-] ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de 12 points 9 months ago

No, for several reasons.

Ice would expose mentos way too slowly. Mentos being in water and freezing would have already removed the texture that makes it work to begin with. By the time the ice melted enough a lot of the carbonation would have already escaped the soda. One mentor isn't enough to cause much reaction. The soda would be cold from the ice and that slows the release of the cO2....

[-] Jackcooper@lemmy.world 7 points 9 months ago

Well you just trick them into microwaving their soda!

[-] Lemminary@lemmy.world 13 points 9 months ago

Hah! Joke's on you. I drink that shit fast and swallow the ice cubes whole.

Oh no, I'm burping so hard, you guise...

[-] grue@lemmy.world 4 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

https://youtu.be/VaqdQhuvPi8?t=8

[-] Lemminary@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago

*Burps a fireball*

Mmm, spicy!

[-] Daxtron2@startrek.website 10 points 9 months ago

am I the only one who drinks things too fast for this to work

[-] EdibleFriend@lemmy.world 10 points 9 months ago

Why the fuck is there a disk in my ice cube?

[-] wreckedcarzz@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago

I have friends that would ask the same question in the same confused tone, and I love it

[-] lemmylommy@lemmy.world 7 points 9 months ago

So how do you freeze them?

Would they even still have that wonderful property after freezing?

[-] Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.ee 5 points 9 months ago

Step one: have fiends

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[-] Brunbrun6766@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago

This isn't c/funny?

[-] wreckedcarzz@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago

well YOU'RE C/FUNNY!

sorry I just wanted in on the weird conversation

Found Satan