what are some facts about the pop and mentos thing?

Question

I am doing my science project on which pop makes the most foam when mentos is dropped in it and i need some facts. I am using A&W diet coke, crush, and sprite. I need some facts on like all the ingredients the have in common and stuff. HELP

Answer 1

I have done it myself and it's the funniest thing that it works that way.

Here is a great website that explains how it works.

http://www.stevespanglerscience.com/experiment/00000109

Answer 2

The Myth Busters did an episode on Discovery Channel recently.

Episode 57.

http://dsc.discovery.com/fansites/mythbusters/episode/episode.html?clik=fanmain_leftnav

maybe there are details there ...

Also, try Howstuffworks,com -

http://www.howstuffworks.com/

Answer 3

They aired this on Mythbusters a couple weeks ago on Discovery Channel and it made the "busted" list.