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[–] ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de 12 points 9 months ago

No, for several reasons.

Ice would expose mentos way too slowly. Mentos being in water and freezing would have already removed the texture that makes it work to begin with. By the time the ice melted enough a lot of the carbonation would have already escaped the soda. One mentor isn't enough to cause much reaction. The soda would be cold from the ice and that slows the release of the cO2....