Why do coke and mentos have such a messy reaction?

You may have seen what happens when you drop mentos mints into a bottle of diet coke, but do you know WHY it happens? Here's Chris to explain (and to clean up the mess).

You may have seen it before – you plop a few mentos mints into a bottle of diet coke, and suddenly you have a fizzing geyser before your very eyes. But, why does it happen? It’s all down to a little process called Nucleation… Download the activity sheet below for loads more info, and here’s Chris to explain!

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