Post by ironhold on Jan 23, 2013 3:40:21 GMT
I recently got to thinking about an incident that happened a few years ago.
I was in the mood for a root beer float one night. I grabbed the root beer (I want to say that it was a store brand - HEB's Hill Country Fare - but I'm not quite sure anymore) and poured a glass, confident that there was still some vanilla ice cream left in the freezer. Instead, when I went to get it out, I found that someone had beat me to it.
Rather than let the root beer go to waste, I pulled out a container of vanilla-flavored Nestle Quik drink mix. I put a generous spoonful (maybe two) in the glass, thinking that I could at least get the flavoring.
Instead, I got a reaction comparable to a science fair volcano. The two substances reacted, causing foam to come out over the top of the glass and go all over the kitchen counter. It wasn't as dramatic as the Coke / Mentos reaction, but it was still a reaction nonetheless.
I'm thinking that something similar took place, but without the kinds of nucleation we would have gotten off of a Mentos (since we're talking about a powder after all).
Thoughts?
Thanks.
I was in the mood for a root beer float one night. I grabbed the root beer (I want to say that it was a store brand - HEB's Hill Country Fare - but I'm not quite sure anymore) and poured a glass, confident that there was still some vanilla ice cream left in the freezer. Instead, when I went to get it out, I found that someone had beat me to it.
Rather than let the root beer go to waste, I pulled out a container of vanilla-flavored Nestle Quik drink mix. I put a generous spoonful (maybe two) in the glass, thinking that I could at least get the flavoring.
Instead, I got a reaction comparable to a science fair volcano. The two substances reacted, causing foam to come out over the top of the glass and go all over the kitchen counter. It wasn't as dramatic as the Coke / Mentos reaction, but it was still a reaction nonetheless.
I'm thinking that something similar took place, but without the kinds of nucleation we would have gotten off of a Mentos (since we're talking about a powder after all).
Thoughts?
Thanks.
