Coca-Cola / Mentos - The fuzz about it
This post is Inspired by Sebastan Joshua Post on Coke and Mentos reaction, i tried and got some faq's about them have a look.
Coca-Cola Response: There is a false rumor circulating via email on the Internet that claims that a child in Brazil died after drinking Coca-Cola light followed by chewing menthol-flavored chewy candy. This story is not true.
There is no reason to believe that Coca-Cola ingredients together with menthol flavor or any other food or food ingredient would combine to cause any illness. Coca-Cola ingredients and menthol flavoring are widely approved as safe food ingredients and are used worldwide in a variety of foods.
This email appears to be linked to a number of amateur videos that have appeared on the Internet, which show people, for fun, mixing Mentos candies with Coca-Cola light (or Diet Coke®) to produce a reaction that causes the Diet Coke to shoot into the air. This reaction is thought to be caused by carbon dioxide (which gives carbonated soft drinks their fizz) permeating the porous surface of the Mentos.
However, chewing a Mentos candy destroys the surface needed for the carbon dioxide bubbles to form. Therefore such a foam reaction cannot happen when the two products are ingested.
We strongly advise consumers to treat with skepticism unauthorized or untraceable myths and rumors which they find on the Internet, since they often, as in this case, turn out to be entirely false.
Scientific Faq's:
Coca-Cola+Mentos = it's a process called "nucleation," in which the particular chemistry of the Mentos candy interacts with the chemistry of the carbonated Diet Coke, causing the carbon dioxide gas, or CO2, to suddenly come out of suspension in the liquid and make a break for freedom.
The non-mint type, have a glaze on them, and they don't work at all. It only works with the mint ones, because they have a matte finish. That surface serves as these little portals for the gas to escape through.
There's a cascade that happens with -- it's a little esoteric -- an ion exchange. Basically the Mentos start to dissolve, and it's like tripping a switch. It's not what you would call a chain reaction, because that's something else in chemistry terms, but it's a cascade whereon all of a sudden, all of the CO2 that was contained in the liquid is suddenly not as attracted to the liquid as it was before, because of this slight change in the chemistry that occurs.
Sugar molecules are very large, and that doesn't allow this to happen as quickly. That's the key. Sugar is gooey and sticky -- even though it doesn't seem that way when it's in a soda, but there's a lot in there -- and it helps hold onto the CO2 a lot better.
In the case of just plain seltzer water, that doesn't work, because the CO2 already wants to come out.
Mentos, which is all well and good, and it works quite well, is actually not the best performer in creating this eruption. Plain old table salt is better.
It isn't necessary to use Diet Coke, that any artificially sweetened carbonated soda should work well. Not recommend chugging diet soda and then popping Mentos.
That's something I was actually concerned about. I took a big swing and popped a couple of Mentos in my mouth, and the soda pretty much came out my nose and sprayed all over the place.
Conclusion: Just drink the soda and enjoy it, and then eat the candy some other time.
Scientific faq's taken from "The 'MythBusters' Take on the Mentos/Diet Coke Craze"
My thougt, we cannot die chugging them together, it will be just fizz comming out, as they said, what say. SOmebody doctor to speak about it more.
11.24.06 (10:14 am) [
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My Friends
I know i posting after lonnngggg time, this post inspired by whisper's post on friendship, initially i thought of getting their images itself on the post, i somehow got their photos, but later thought against it, and thought of having cartoon images, so it took such a long time.
Rakesh - Ritesh: Well image i chose Chip n Dale for them because, they are twins first, then chip n dale seems to fight most of time but when they work together they do it well same with them, it is not that they keep fight but it is like if rakesh is west then ritesh is east.
Rakesh(Kekda(Crab - English)) - The Charmer, guy with humor, loves sport, enjoy's life, girls love him, and he too love girls, but he has quit simple fundaa about girls they are just friends, well i know about girls for him when they are not just friends, has a problem of saying well i said so, and u just can't defeat me whole of ur life, and till now i m unable to.
Ritesh(Ritu - Short form of his name) - Well as i said he is just opposite not humoristic rather moody, sports well not in his dreams(he trys them, but not willingly forcibily), well but just like his brother when it comes to girls he too is good but in totally different way he also uses humor but, more so his gentleman like attitude woo's girls, but has lot of mood swinging prob u never know when he is gonna be sad guy from happy humoristic, but a very nice from heart, both of them.
Sandeep(Sandy - Short form of his name) - His image here is Daffy-duck, just life daffy duck witty, smart and man you need some quick thinking to even talk to him, you never know when he gonna paste a dialog on you, very good speaker as i said, when it comes to girls stuck to one.
Viren(Vira the Virus - known as Vira more wide spread) - His image might tell u all, the virus of the group, when his brain works we know whats comming, has lots of references to usefull( hopefully you know wht i ean by usefull people), just ask him and he is like ok u want this wait i will just call this guy, very wicked, i mean even if ask him to walk, he can't even walk straight even that is wicked. Ask about girls, he so frustrated, "don't even talk about them, they just eat my brain", well but had lots of them.
Ganesh - Nilesh - Here i took image of tom and jerry for them, as the combination has same reaction, keep them in vicinity and you will another tom and jerry happening here tom is Ganesh and jerry is nilesh and the dog always is rakesh in their story.
Ganesh(G-man -(don't ask me why this name bigggg story)) - Great heart, that is what we call him, ask for help he is their whatever time, but has big problem, repeating mistakes, and we just won't let him forget those, he our all time bakra(scape goat). Big problem with girls, well, as i said repeats the mistake.
Nilesh - Happy go lucky kinda guy, always on high, always gives PJ's(pakau Jokes - Boring Jokes), well he has similar story to ganesh when it comes to girls and we just won't let him forget those moments.
Parag - (Prag - well i don't know why that nick name, may tryin to sound little hip) Good guy, elder then us, but novoice in life compared to us, very careless, give him a thing never comes in onepiece, well ask him a thing he will never say no take anything, we have some prob with our comp, we take his comp. His image i chose is donald duck, well as donald duck is even he is he same, goofs up everything, in girls case, Aaj Pooja kal koi duja(Today pooja 2moro somebody else), his love changes every month, and repeat the same dialog , yaar(friend), this time im serious, and we know how serious he is.
Sudesh -(No nick names) - my image the Garfield simply bcause like me love couches, gets bored with things very easily, happy go lucky kinda guy, but not so witty, but when thinks of doing certain thing most probably will do it, when it comes to girls a big hustler, ask me face a tiger given a situation i can even face him(joking), but ask me face girls it will like climbing mount everest.
Here is my friend l couldn't choose image,
Summit(Anna - (the big brother)) - He is the youngest of the lot, after me, he is little don, always on pressure cooker, always ready to fight, when it comes to girls he is stuck, and also his studies seems to important for him.
This post of mine completely dedicated to my friends without whom my day to day life would be upside down, Every weeks it compulsory we meet atleast 3 days, go for girl hunting 2-3 a month(i m not good at it). We are like addicted to each other, good friends are hard to find and when found don't let them go, we too fight, but next day we forget about all that, it is simple for us because their is always somebody between us who will be like common now it is over.
You might be thinking why i deliberatly told about girls in my group, well till now none of my group member has consistent relationship with any girl, they re all bachelor, for whatever reason and most of my members have only this grievience, that none of us have girlfriends, may be in way that helped us, because most of us find times to meet each other, and not waiting for their respective girl friends.
This might be my longest post ever, i m ending it here, if you can suggest any cartoon characters, for any of us your welcome.
11.17.06 (11:08 am) [
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