We have all seen the Diet Coke and Mentos videos on YouTube. I have also done this with plain sugar and any soda (see video). After experimenting, the Mythbusters concluded:
“There’s a cascade that happens with — it’s a little esoteric — an ion exchange. Basically the Mentos start to dissolve, and it’s like tripping a switch. It’s not what you would call a chain reaction, because that’s something else in chemistry terms, but it’s a cascade whereon all of a sudden, all of the CO2 that was contained in the liquid is suddenly not as attracted to the liquid as it was before, because of this slight change in the chemistry that occurs.”
cool :/
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cool ;(
weird