The reaction has been performed numerous times on television and the internet, but has not been systematically studied. Inspired by an internet story, the mythbusters take on the controversy. Adam and jamie are trying to figure out the theory behind the chaos when diet cola and mentos mix. Kari byron, grant imahara and tory belleci take on a viral video. Jamie and adam try to scientifically explain the recently publicized and highly entertaining chemical reaction caused as a result of placing a mentos candy into a 2liter bottle of diet coke. The cast of the television series mythbusters performs experiments to verify or debunk urban legends, old wives tales, and the like. Other active ingredients in the cascadeeffect reaction include aspartame artificial sweetener, potassium benzoate preservative, and caffeine in the diet coke. Dec 30, 2015 mythbusters s04e14 diet coke and mentos youtube. Mythbusters is a science entertainment tv program created and produced by australias beyond television productions for the discovery channel there is no consistent system for organizing mythbusters episodes into seasons. Brand names are shown when integral to a myth, such as in the diet coke and mentos experiment or pop rocks in the very first pilot episode of mythbusters. Mythbusters s04e14 diet coke and mentos izleyin monarch of the gle. Adam and jamie explore the fizzy myths of combining soda and candy.
Meanwhile in diet coke and mentos exploding stomach our intrepid trio test an internet video with an outrageous claim. Hello and i must say that this was the funnest backyard experiment ever. Please sign in with your tv provider to watch this episode and other great programs. The mythbusters placed a grenade in a bucket full of water, in hopes that the bucket would slow down the shrapnel enough to inflict no harm on the plywood dummies. This is a list of the various myths tested on the show, as well as the results of the experiments the myth is busted, plausible, or confirmed. The season kicks off with a deeper look at the american civil war fought with polished bayonets, unreliable muskets, and bulky cannons. The mythbusters test ways to beat police road spikes using diy ingenuity and hollywood driving skills.
Adam and jamie explore the fizzy myths of combining soda with candy to find the perfect cocktail for an explosive result. Wizard who works as a consultant to the discovery channel. I got a call from steve jacobs right hand man to don herbert mr. The experiment became a subject of the television show mythbusters in 2006. From the macro to the micro, provocative and insightful subjects are explored to the fullest. The rest of the mythbusters team explores the possibility of a standard postage. Season 4 episode 14 mentos and soda adam and jamie try to figure out the theory behind the chaos when diet cola and mentos mix.
Adam tells a story about a colorful mythbusters extra who helped out during the jimmy hoffa episode. For the mythbusters finale, adam drives a truck through 14 years of props. Mythbusters s04e14 diet coke and mentos youtube fanart tv. Mythbusters s04e14 diet coke and mentos dailymotion video.
The team also tests facts of flatulence all the way to investigating exploding pants and the famous diet cola and mentos question. Did mythbusters discover diet coke and mentos explosion. Mythbusters s04e14 diet coke and mentos izleyin monarch of the gle dailymotionda. Will consuming diet coke and mentos together produce a torn tummy. Mask irl spiderman diet coke and mentos prank real lifeqdslsxaevqa super spiderman vs the mask irl spiderman diet coke and mentos prank real life. Adam and jamie explore the science behind the fabled diet coke and mentos phenomenon. Mythbusters season 4 episode 14 mentos and soda watch.
The full sized test also produced the same results as the stamp did not cause the helicopter to crash and, according to the. Watch mythbusters season 4, episode 14 diet coke and mentos. I found it very interesting and i wanted to find out more about it. The diet coke and mentos experiment is also an outlier with respect to their safety warnings, as savage and hyneman stated on air that this myth was perfectly safe for viewers to replicate on. Txxxnico mythbusters season 4 episode 14 diet coke and mentos. With jamie hyneman, adam savage, tory belleci, grant imahara.
The diet coke and mentos reaction is a fun demonstration in chemistry and physics classes of many important concepts in thermodynamics, fluid dynamics, surface science, and the physics of explosions. He told me that adam and jamie from mythbusters were going to do an episode on the whole mentos phenomenon and. Inspired by an internet story, the mythbusters take on the controversy surrounding these fizzy fountains. Inspired by an internet phenomenon, the mythbusters take on the controversy surrounding these. We report on an experimental study of the diet coke and mentos reaction, and. This is from when the weeks episode involved toilet tests. Then, they investigate if a highpowered fountain can actually lift and suspend a human. The mythbusters immediately ramped up the test to the scale of 8,000 stamps, which destroyed the scale model helicopter. If you stuck 8000 postage stamps, you could crash a copter, but a single postage stamp wont. The mythbusters test if a high fall into water can be survived by breaking the tension with a hammer, if cola cleans various items, and if it is possible to survive being buried alive.
Meanwhile in diet coke and mentos exploding stomach our intrepid. The holiday special episode in this season was the first time mythbusters was broadcast in high definition. Diet coke and mentos, postage stamp on a helicopter. Only diet coke and mentos will make an explosion, not diet pepsi, coke classic, or any other soda will produce an explosion of the same magnitude. The rest of the mythbusters team explores the possibility of a standard postage stamp causing enough imbalance in the rotating assemblies of a. Adam and jamie, and pit them against the peoples nemesis. Meanwhile grant, tory and kari roll out the seven paper fold myth. Watch full episodes, get behind the scenes, meet the cast, and much more. Diet coke and mentos adam and jamie explore the fizzy myths of combining soda with candy to find the perfect cocktail for an explosive result. The mythbusters reveal the science behind the famously explosive colacandy combo. Did adam shoot better than jamie because of his age. Despite the do not try this at home disclaimers, the mythbusters concluded that diet coke and mentos geysers are safe enough for people to try, even for children with the exception of getting in trouble by their parents.
I think were gonna have to try that a whole bunch more times. During class weve been watching the video on the physical change using diet coke and mentos candy. Diet coke and mentos minimyth mythbusters discovery. Mythbusters take a stab at the mentos madness steve. Adam also implies that more improvised explosives may be tested for a future episode. Mythbusters take a stab at the mentos madness steve spangler. Mostly because the mentos provide nucleation sites for the dissolved carbon dioxide in the diet coke to escape as a gas. Then, kari, grant and tory investigate the myth that a postage stamp on a helicopter rotor blade can cause a tailspin. Co 2, aspartame, potassium benzoate, and caffeine in the diet coke, gum arabic and gelatin in the mentos, as well as the tiny pits on a mentos candy nucleation sites are responsible for the explosive reaction of diet coke and mentos.
In this episode, adam and jamie also created homemade. The show does not follow a typical calendar of on and off air periods. The mythbusters episode aired last night aug 9th on the discovery. Swallowing both mentos and diet coke will make a persons stomach explode. A diet coke and mentos eruption is a reaction between the carbonated beverage diet coke. On this episode of mythbusters, jamie and adam test the stuff of nightmares in underwater car. Here are some interesting facts and the root cause of how and why does the reaction happen so dramatically. The official mythbusters website lists episodes by calendar year. None of the theories had the full list of contributing factors for the geyser. Then they try and find new householdproduct tricks that could be the new craze. Mythbusters season 4 episode 14 diet coke and mentos. I bought the episode hindenburg mysteries from season. Mentos and diet coke explosion in slow motion duration. The rest of the mythbusters team explores the possibility of a standard postage stamp causing enough imbalance in the rotating assemblies of a helicopter.
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