http://www.odditycentral.com/pics/biggest-mentos-fountain-ever.html#more-2466 Biggest Mentos fountain ever By Spooky on April 26th, 2008 Category: Events, Funny, Pics LIKE DISLIKE You know what happens if you drop a sweet mint into a bottle of coke right? What if 1500 people did it at the same time? That’s what 1500 students from a University in Belgium tried to find out and also set a new world record for the world’s biggest Mentos fountain. It wasn’t the most important experiment in the lives of the young chemistry students, but I can bet it was the funniest one. You can see the result of the experiment in the photos below, too bad I couldn’t find any more. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diet_Coke_and_Mentos_eruption How to get the largest fountains ============== http://gizmodo.com/383936/belgian-students-break-mento-and-coke-world-record Belgian Students Break Mento-and-Coke World Record AddyDugdale 4/25/08 5:25amFiled to: COKE AND MENTOS 62 Belgian Students Break Mento-and-Coke World Record Here's what you do when you're a student in the Belgian town of Leuven. You don a blue plastic poncho alongside 1,499 undergraduates, all standing in line at very long table, on which is placed a bottle of Diet Coke and a Mento. On the count of three, having raised your hood, you drop the mint in the plastic bottle, and 1,500 fountains of sticky drink erupt simultaneously. More pics below. Update: We've stuck a video up there, as well. Belgian Students Break Mento-and-Coke World Record It's rather reminiscent of a miracle occurring during dinner in the refectory of the Order of the Blue Man Monastery (patron saint Tobias Funcke.) Belgian Students Break Mento-and-Coke World Record The record was broken, I hope the stickiness was cleaned up from Place Ladeuzeplein, and the kids got to keep their ponchos. =========== http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-561900/Pictured-Mentos-madness-1-300-students-set-Diet-Coke-fountain-record.html Pictured: Mentos madness as 1,300 students set Diet Coke fountain record Last updated at 14:09 25 April 2008 It is the kind of experiment which gets even older kids excited about science. Students in the Belgian city of Leuven have set the new world record for most Mentos fountains by launching 1,360 simultaneous geysers. After they each dropped a tube of the mints into a bottle of Diet Coke, Ladeuzeplein square became a sudden sea of foaming soda yesterday, with carbonated streams shooting up to 29 feet high. Scroll down for more... Enlarge Explosion: Belgian students in Leuven out-fizz previous records for adding Mentos to Diet Coke Films of the Mentos-Diet Coke mix have been posted on Internet entertainments sites attracting at least 10 million viewers. The previous World Record was set in the U.S., when 973 Cola bottles were launched simultaneously. The craze has developed into an advertiser's dream with a 20 per cent increase in sales of Mentos Mints last year. Scroll down for more... Covered: Seconds later everyone in Ladeuzeplein square is soaked through with sticky soda The sweet-maker estimates the craze is worth $10 million free advertising a year. Coca-Cola has also signed deals with leading Internet video celebrities and even ran a Diet Coke-Mentos video on its website for three months. Scroll down for more... Scientsts: The men in white coats ensure the bottle explode properly before the attempt Although there is no exact scientific explanation for the phenomenon, scientists agree that the reaction is physical, not chemical. The most popular cause is believed to be the thousands of tiny pores on each Mentos Mint, which act like nucleation sites allowing carbon dioxide bubbles to form in the drink. The bubbles form all over the sweets and when its sink to the bottom it causes the carbon dioxide to whoosh out of the bottle. Scroll down for more... Enlarge Getting ready: Students wait for orders to drop in the Mentos There are reports that eating Mentos and drinking Cola simultaneously can result in death caused by the reaction, but no fatalities have been reported so far.