Fourteen Mentos mints, each with a small hole drilled through it, are threaded onto a piece of fishing line. This string of Mentos is dropped through a small tube taped to the mouth of a two-liter bottle of Diet Coke.

In Experiment #6, it didn't go quite according to plan...

How Does it Work?

What makes the soda fly out of the bottle? Will you explode if you drink Diet Coke and eat Mentos? Click here to find out...

Credits:

Experiment #6, by Fritz Grobe (the short one) and Stephen Voltz (the tall one). Music by Audiobody. Filmed in Buckfield, Maine, home of the Oddfellow Theater. Thanks to Brian & Nancy Bennett.