Cool Mentos-Coke-Powered Car

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEid87a2ZFsULIulbNKPtjEZHXUvHwXjL1DRhBUg55n_CV5x4vMVb9Gxw2wNIAxYZsB8VsPUq7Zt73iGVENfYNx5k08WKL6DUxbqML8L2YsVmubzR5ZcwoOwOENXWosWMDx9J5_RpBUTniE/s1600/coke-mentos-car.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="468" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEid87a2ZFsULIulbNKPtjEZHXUvHwXjL1DRhBUg55n_CV5x4vMVb9Gxw2wNIAxYZsB8VsPUq7Zt73iGVENfYNx5k08WKL6DUxbqML8L2YsVmubzR5ZcwoOwOENXWosWMDx9J5_RpBUTniE/s640/coke-mentos-car.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Surely you're hip to the Diet Coke and Mentos phenomenon of a few years ago. When an enterprising duo realized that the hard-coated candies interacted with the soda in an explosive way, an internet meme was instantly born. Over the last couple of years, though, interest in the parlor trick seemed to wane. Until now.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Fritz Grobe and Stephen Voltz, the two men who helped kick off the fun in the first place, are back, claiming a new record for the longest distance traveled in a car powered by Diet Coke and Mentos: 239 feet.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">After dissecting the video, we believe there's a lot more power in the Diet Coke and Mentos recipe to be had, and there must be a better way to stop so much of the fuel from leaking out instead of providing forward thrust. Duct tape, perhaps?</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="480" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/DhFwiFHWat8?rel=0" width="640"></iframe></div><br /><br />Source from <a href="http://www.autoblog.com/2011/12/10/mentos-and-diet-coke-powered-car-sets-distance-record/" target="_blank">Autoblog</a><br /><br />

Cool Mentos-Coke-Powered Car

Surely you're hip to the Diet Coke and Mentos phenomenon of a few years ago. When an enterprising duo realized that the hard-coated cand...

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