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Mentos and Soda Bomb

This is a bomb made out of a glad tupperware container, soda, mentos, and paper towels. This is not very expensive and building one only takes a couple of minutes...

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Step 1What You Need

You need:

1. Glad circular 1/2 cup interlocking lid plastic tupperware container.

2. Can of Coke

3. Mentos

4. Paper Towels

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27 comments

Jul 7, 2008. 7:55 PMDaNerd11 says:

why dont u take an entire bottle of coke, an entire thing of mentos, drop them in, close the cap and then see what happens

Jun 25, 2009. 1:38 AMtheburn7 says:

not enough time to close the cap, i tried

Jun 26, 2009. 10:26 PMThundertydus says:

You wrong, they did it on mythbusters, then they through it and it exploded on impact

Jul 13, 2009. 1:48 AMtheburn7 says:

Not with whole thing of mentose

Apr 19, 2009. 12:09 PMCardinal Fang says:

Any form of carbonated drink works for this - soda, lemonade, cola etc. Mentos work because they have millions of tiny pits that form condensation nucleii. These make the gas come out of the drink very quickly, and as the reaction happens at the bottom, the fizz has nowhere to go but up and out. Because of this, any rough surfaced candy works - polos are ok, as are some sherbet based sweets. Anything with a glazed or waxed coating will not work.

Dec 20, 2008. 11:30 AMbylerfamily says:

I tried this and it did not work!!!!!!!!!!!!Can anyone tell me why?I used a half bottle of diet coke and 2 mentos.It didn't even fizz.

Dec 25, 2008. 5:54 PMFather Christmas says:

were they the orignal mentos or were they the tropical fruity ones?

Jan 1, 2009. 11:47 AMbylerfamily says:

They were mint.

Jan 1, 2009. 12:09 PMFather Christmas says:

hmm. wierd. if they were in your mouth, they wouldnt work. it also wouldnt work if the soda was flat. either of those the case?

Jan 2, 2009. 8:16 AMbylerfamily says:

No.However I found the problem.The mentos were smooth.Try dropping smooth mentos into diet coke.What happens?

Jan 2, 2009. 10:02 AMFather Christmas says:

well, thats what i was saying kinda, i was just giving circumstances. i wonder why they were smooth...

Mar 17, 2009. 8:53 AMomnibot says:

I've noticed that since the Mentos/Coke Light effect became known the Mentos here in Sweden have all been made smooth.

Mar 17, 2009. 11:51 AMFather Christmas says:

lame

Mar 18, 2009. 6:23 AMomnibot says:

Sucks I know, now we're smuggling them in from eastern europe and the UK.

Mar 11, 2009. 3:36 PMTomEd says:

Half a 2 liter bottle? You will need much more try doing a 2 liter diet coke with a full pack of mentos.

Sep 26, 2008. 9:11 PMbuster27 says:

dOES PEPSI WORK

Dec 19, 2008. 5:56 PMjacobzman says:

yes

Nov 15, 2008. 7:29 AMDerin says:

Aug 19, 2008. 8:06 PMbsebllplaya24 says:

If you did this in a 2 liter soda bottle or even a small water battle it would be much more powerful. You would just have to put the mentos in and screw on the lid fast and then throw it. Similar concept as the dry ice bomb. Still very neat instructible.