Diet Coke + Mentos=Unclogged drain?

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<p>I know this is sorta random, but do you guys think that dropping a couple of mentos in my sink and then quickly pouring some diet coke down afterwards would unclog my sink?</p>

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<p>yes do it. do it now</p>

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<p>…if you’re lucky it’ll work…if not, you’ll blow up your sink…have you heard of draino?..just don’t drink it…or mix it with bleach…</p>

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<p>Oh well if I blow up my sink… that would suck. What happens when you mix draino with bleach?</p>

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<p>Just do it…</p>

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<p>Chlorine gas (if I remember correctly). You sort of die, but all in good fun.</p>

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<p>Wow… I would have considered doing that if you didn’t warn me!</p>

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<p>“but all in good fun”</p>

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<p>More than likely it would just fizz up and out and make a large mess.</p>

<p>You’d have to make sure to cover the drain after doing it… so that the fizz exerts force on the clog.</p>

<p>Diet coke and mentos would not create enough force to blow up your sink…</p>

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<p>So the stuff with mentos in diet coke is just air pressure inside the bottle? I stopped thinking after getting into college, so forgive me if I made a mistake.</p>

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<p>Yeah, it effectively releases all the dissolved carbon-dioxide (the stuff that makes fizz).</p>

<p>I’m sure the force isn’t trivial (it could very well explode a soda bottle), but I doubt it would compromise a sink. Either the clog will clear or it will come back out of the drain before that occurs.</p>

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<p>No.
Get Drano.</p>

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<p>If you have it around already, I say why not try it out?</p>

<p>If it doesn’t work (which it very likely won’t), <em>then</em> you should go out and buy drano ;)</p>

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<p>Lol I tried it, it created a huge ass mess and I have been cleaning it for the last 20+ minutes. Uh, it sorta made it less clogged?</p>

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<p>Ah yes… the mess. Should have stuck with my first post, l0l</p>

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<p>Haha, cool.</p>

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<p>if you were to put a stopper on the sink so the pressure would do something to the clog im sure there would be some affect or effect idk which one.</p>

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<p>Now you’ll have a nice mess of aspartame and bacteria to clean with Drano:D</p>

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<p>I think FredFred’s amazing. I would never of thought of something like that…and then actually DO IT. :)</p>