It’s not unusual for our office to get a call or two a week from the media about the Mentos Geyser experiment. Most of the inquires focus on how the reaction works or questions about MENTOS myths. When Tom Whipple from the London Times called, his interest in the MENTOS Geyser focused on the vehicle used to popularize the experiment – YouTube. Here’s the interview from the London Times…
A Lesson in Pure Science…from YouTube
Thousands have watched Steve Spangler’s experiments online. He says it’s the ideal teaching tool for science. Tom Whipple
Steve Spangler was not the first to perform the “Mentos experiment”. It was just that when he did — in his role as a science correspondent on NBC — there was what he refers to as “a perfect storm” of circumstances.
On live TV he put a Mentos mint into a bottle of Diet Coke, waited for a geyser to erupt from the top and watched as the news anchor got soaked. “They tried to fix her hair,” he says, “but it didn’t work.” Crucially, there was also “this little thing called YouTube, that no one knew about”.
After launching thousands and thousands of Mentos Geysers, we like to eat Mentos as much as we play with them. We also love to chew Mentos gum, but learned early on that Mentos gum doesn’t work for the old geyser trick. The guys in the video below discovered the same thing. After watching the video a few times, our consensus is that all 250 bottles didn’t actually get Mentos gum (the students would have been just a little more upset with the cost of wasting 250 bottles of soda and 1000 pieces of gum), but you be the judge. The loading device, on the other hand, is very cool. Nice job.
Not to be out-done by Europeans, students at Male High School in Louisville, KY, set off 300 more geysers than the previous record-breaking effort just a few months ago in Belgium. School officials thought exploding Diet Coke and MENTOS would be a great way for students to blow off a little steam before finals and celebrate a great school year. The students were recognized by the Guinness Book of World Records as the new official record holders with 1800 geysers. All proceeds from the event were donated to the Ronald McDonald House. Congrats to Male High School students… now who will be next in the race for a new geyser world record?
Mentos Geyser Tube
Launch a MENTOS® soda geyser 30 feet in the air with the Geyser Tube. The Geyser Tube™ is a loading tube for the now famous Diet Coke geyser powered by MENTOS®.
Mentos Geyser Tube Event Packs
If you have a Geyser Tube you know how addicting that wild eruption can be. Now we have the perfect way for you to share the soda spray with everyone you know!
It’s not unusual for our office to get a call or two a week from the media about the Mentos Geyser experiment. Most of the inquires focus on how the reaction works or questions about MENTOS myths. When Tom Whipple from the London Times called, his interest in the MENTOS Geyser focused on the vehicle used to popularize the experiment – YouTube. Here’s the interview from the London Times…
