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We’ve all see the famous You-Tube diet coke and mentos experiment here (http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=mentos) and thought it’d be fun to give it a go, but much like some of our other ill-fated office experiments (that if they’re not here I’m not allowed to blog about…) it didn’t go exactly according to plan.

Due to not thinking too much about what goes on chemically when a bottle of coke meets a mento, and not wanting to get too sticky or destroy the nice cars of the people that work here, we decided to try the experiment with bottles of fizzy water and a selection of cheap mints - at least if it went wrong the most we’d get is a refreshing minty shower!

So, Jon and myself bought a 2 litre bottle of Sainsbury’s 17p cheap fizzy water, and Kelvin bought some premium fizzy tonic water in a bottle I can only describe as shaped like a volcano. I had Sainsbury’s economy extra sugary mints, Jon had a roll of polo’s and Kelvin had tic-tac’s.

As you can see from the following video of my try, the experiment was an utter shambles!

I don’t know if the design of the bottles for Jon and I were to blame (rounded tops over straight reducing the pressure towards the opening) or if the mints were not of good enough quality to break down quickly and cause a fast release of gas, but something was up as Kelvin won the day!

It seems that, for this experiment at least, tonic water and tic tacs were the best combination, but if any of our readers out there have any other suggestions please leave them below.

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