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Hi Any chemists or sugar rocketeers, my daughter says;

Hey, Dad buy me a Mountain Dew so I can try this neat trick! Leave .25% of Mt. Dew in bottle and add cap of Baking soda and Three caps of Hydrogen Peroxide to the bottle and shake!


It is supposed to glow like a light stick???

Im no chemist by any stretch of the imagination, but I think this adds up to BOOM!?!?

With the Citric Acid + CO2 + Sugar + Baking Soda + Hydrogen Peroxide + sealed vessel = Hot Sticky Boom?:surprised::jaw::surprised::jaw:

I would like to see if they works. Can you try it and post a video?

I think snopes.com debunked this one.

RadManCF said:

I think snopes.com debunked this one.

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I suspect that. It is too outlandish.

Well it was on Facebook and I have seen of kids mixing various house hold cleaners and getting everything from poison gas to small chemical explosions. You can get a hell of a bang out of a plastic bottle sealed and then loaded with expanding gasses for some mixtures. but most are harmless like dry ice in plastic bottle or hand warmer in water in plastic bottle both make big bang but are harmless.

".25%" of Mountain Dew isn't going to leave much to react with anything; assuming a 16 ounce bottle, that's only 0.04 ounces - or about 1.18 ml.

I think he means 25%, am I right?

C-57D said:

".25%" of Mountain Dew isn't going to leave much to react with anything; assuming a 16 ounce bottle, that's only 0.04 ounces - or about 1.18 ml.

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opps, ya 25% so 16 / 4 = 4 oz.

You'll get a lot of CO2 produced, but nothing glow in the dark or explosive in the burning sense...

SAC of MMMSClub said:

most are harmless like dry ice in plastic bottle

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Harmless? Hardly. Here's an example of how 'harmless' a dry ice bomb can be. https://www.dryiceinfo.com/Pictures/dry ice bomb injury.jpg

The glow stick made out of Mountain Dew is a hoax.

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Priceless:cyclops:

If you make something that you expect to go BOOM! And it don't, the exact moment that you enter the frag radius, is the exact moment that it will remember it was supposed to go BOOM!:jaw::surprised::jaw::surprised:

I thought that was just an "Estes Dent".