Carbon dioxide (CO2)
it makes it shoot out the bottle, the coke.
your dume
There are chemicals in the soda called Potassium Benzoate and aspartame that react with other chemicals in Mentos like the gelatin and Arabic gum.
If you combine Mentos and Diet Coke, you could get a big boom. The coke will react with the mentos, making a chemical reaction together and create the giant explosion.
See the link below.
mentos
the dimply surface in the mentos cause a polar attraction between the water molecules
Rather explosively. When you mix Diet Coke and Mentos, they will fizz like there's no tomorrow. If you want to try this, do it outside.
Mentos are made by Perfetti Van Melle, an Italian company. The company has factories in America, and Europe.
Because they react
it becomes pressurized.
pepsi and coke, though coke works better