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ChEmIcAmAzInG - The Mentos Diet Coke Geyser

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Welcome everybody to a new Snooping Session. Let's start with a question: Have you ever seen amazing chemical reactions? I'm sure you have, at least once. Thanks to the Internet, plenty of videos are made every day showing these wonderful processes. But most of the time you just see a video, without explaining why what you are witnessing is happening. Well, my Snoopers, ChEmIcAmAzInG will do the job. Here to simply describe the reality behind the wonder.... Let's start with one of the most common reactions. Maybe some of you have tried this before. I personally have, and by the time I did it it gets very, very, very messy. This is the Mentos Diet Coke Geyser. Everybody that has a computer and a social media should know this trick, and if you have ever wondered WHY the reaction between Diet Coke and Mentos is so strong.... Keep reading for the answer. First of all, it should be noticed this is not a “strict ingredients reaction” ; lots of other carbonated beverages wi