How is Coca Cola(TM) made?
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The *proprietary* cola syrup is mixed into carbonated water.\n\nThe precise ingredient list for Coca Cola is a closely guarded trade secret.
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There is a coating of natural gum on the surface of mentos which will reduce surface tension of liquids.  Reducing the surface tension will force the release of the gas bubbles from the liquid pronto.  A tube of mentos into a 2 litre bottle will produce an instant fountain around 5 metres high.  Note - use diet coke - it's easier to clean up (not so sticky).  Lots of web sites show videos of this.
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Aaliyah's Mama  - answered part of the question and she is right\nwhen coca cola first came out it was use as a drug to treat eplipsic cause it contained the drug cocaine in it .  Then it became a house hold drink.  \nand for some time they did not know why a lot of people back then were buying it right and let and getting buzzed out of there heads   until a few years later they found traces of cocaine that gave it most of it'e taste  since then coca cola company replaced the drug with arifishal flavor but now it does not contain any of the drug cocaine any more   you might be getting a surgar buzz if anything.
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I just watched them do an experiment on the news the other night.  They took a tube of mentos and held them over a bottle of Coke with a piece of paper between the tube and bottle.  They then pulled the paper away and the coke shot twenty feet in the air.  Looked like a lot of fun, but the reporter got soaked with Coke, so be aware of that.\n\nIt has to do with the sugar content of the mentos (or in your case the cotton candy) then when it comes in contact with the carbonic acid of coke causes a catalyst effect.  Although Coke already has a lot of sugar in it, it hasn't reached the point to simply make the Coke lose all its carbonation at once.
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The principal raw materials for acetylene manufacture are calcium carbonate (limestone) and coal. The calcium carbonate is first converted into calcium oxide and the coal into coke, then the two are reacted with each other to form calcium carbide and carbon monoxide:\n\nCaO + 3C → CaC2 + CO \nCalcium carbide (or calcium acetylide) and water are then reacted by any of several methods to produce acetylene and calcium hydroxide.\n\nCaC2 + 2H2O → Ca(OH)2 + C2H2 \nAcetylene can also be manufactured by the partial combustion of methane with oxygen, or by the cracking of hydrocarbons.
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Coke....   because it is a dark cola.  Coffee and tea will also do the same thing.
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Try this link for their press centre. Good Luck!....\n\nhttp://www2.coca-cola.com/presscenter/presscontacts.html
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If you go to gofish.com or myspace.com there is a video about this.  Apparently it is a matter of breaking the surface tension.  They used only 2L bottles but I think it will work with other sizes.  Not only mentos and diet coke works, but they used diet pepsi, with same results.  It even works with dropping rocks in the bottle.  It was a really awesome video, it was quite funny.  I suggest checking it out.
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u need to contact the coca cola people.
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Nope, it's not Coca-Cola. It's pretty much what Coke was inspired from, though. She, and a lot of other people of her time and stature liked Vin Mariani.
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First of all, there cannot be a vacuum inside a bottle of Coke.  Coke is largely water with CO2 gas dissoved in it, under pressure.  If you were to try to make a vacuum inside, the CO2 would simply bubble out, until the soda became "flat."  If a sealed bottle of Coke is heated up, the pressure inside rises.  That's because the solubility of gases in water decreases with increasing temp.  More of the CO2 is forced out of solution, which increases the pressure inside the bottle.  If it gets hot enough, the cap could blow off, or the bottle could explode.  If you heat it up, and it doesn't blow up, then cool it back down, it will be unchanged.  As for whether the Coke will still taste OK, it will, unless it's subjected to high temperature long enough to cause the kola flavoring to decompose.  That would take a long time.
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please do not do this for a science project.  too common.  but if you really want to know...most ppl get a small coke bottle and mould clay around it to get the mountain shape.
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Yes its TRUE.\n\nCoca-Cola was named back in 1885 for its two "medicinal" ingredients: extract of coca leaves and kola nuts. Just how much cocaine was originally in the It's all gone now, folks. formulation is hard to determine, but the drink undeniably contained some cocaine in its early days. Frederick Allen describes the public attitude towards cocaine that existed as Coca-Cola's developers worked on perfecting their formula in 1891:
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I dunno...though I've heard it said that Pepsi has more than Coke.  What is needed is an experiment.  One could obtain some small balloons.  Add a small amount (a few ounces--you may have to experiment to find the best quantity) of a soda to a container, and attach a balloon to it.  Then wait until the soda goes flat (a day?).  Do this for different types of soda.  The volume of the gas released can be determined by immersing the balloon in water and noticing how much water was displaced.\n\nComment:  The person who said that it's dependent only on temerature is wrong.  Colder temperature does increase the solubility, but so does increased pressure.  See:\nhttp://www.intute.ac.uk/sciences/reference/plambeck/chem2/p01182.htm
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The metal starts as flat piece of aluminum. The sheets are placed into a die and drawn to proper depth. The tops are made out of  blank sheet of metal and through a multi strike process are formed. They then go to a secondary process that places the tabs on the lids. They are assembled by seam locking (rolling the top small lip over a flange on the can) then is spun in a curling station to form a perfect seam. Any imperfection in the height of the can is hidden by the seam locking process.  The cans are then painted in a series of single ink applications over a template. The cans are then shipped out to the beverage factories.
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When the mega succesful Coca Cola company took a product that had already proved successful in the USA and launched it in the UK in 2004, what could go wrong?\n\nBut Dasani bottled water lasted just 5 weeks before being withdrawn, the failed launch cost them many millions, made them a laughing stock, and stopped the roll-out in other European countries.\n\nSee this BBC Business story for what went wrong and laugh. (or do I mean weep?) http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/3809539.stm\n\nand\n\nhttp://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/3566233.stm
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Mountain Dew all the way. Coke is gross.