How To: Create light with Mentos and Mountain Dew

Create light with Mentos and Mountain Dew

Systm is the Do-It-Yourself show designed for the common geek who wants to quickly and easily learn how to dive into the latest and hottest tech projects. They will help you avoid pitfalls and get your project up and running fast. In this DIY episode, see how to create light with Mentos and Mountain Dew.

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As we all know Mentos and Diet Coke have a rather explosive effect. Hundreds of videos document that phenomenon. In today's episode of Systm we're showing off one of Mentos' even more amazing (but lesser known) abilities. It seems certain ingredients in another popular soft drink, when combined with Mentos, produces a luminescent glow. In fact there's enough light to actually read a book under. Think of it as an emergency light!

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11 Comments

HOAX!! it does not work. not with Mentos, not with hydrogen peroxide and baking soda. Mountain Dew does not glow in the dark, it only eats away at your teeth and magically makes kids hyper and obease. Not such a great trick.

What a joke. Wasted my time watching this to see that it was all a hoax at the end. how lame.

this sucks i know you had fun but that was not nice!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Anyone have a link to the butane drip thing? I could really use it

just fake ,U got to read between lines man

What sort of mind believes this horses*?

ths s all fake guyzzzzzzzzzz don t waste ur time nd money .

it is so fake but a good imagination ..........................

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