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Original – A Diet Coke and Mentos eruption is a reaction between a carbonated beverage and Mentos candies that causes the beverage to spray out of its container. This image depicts a two-liter bottle of Diet Coke shortly after Mentos were dropped into it.
Reason
This is a giant image with well-done lighting, composition, and color selection which clearly depicts exactly what the article is talking about and instantly places the subject into the viewer's visual context. It's easily of the same quality as other visual examples seen in, for example, undergraduate chemistry textbooks. The image is probably not perfect (I'm not qualified to decide, I just know that I think it looks good and I like it), and I'm sure the aesthetic savants here will find numerous minor flaws and details to criticize, but I believe it is still an excellent example of the high-quality volunteer work Wikipedia and its associated projects produce, most chiefly for its ability to clearly and immediately depict an otherwise minor or trivial topic.
Articles in which this image appears
Diet Coke and Mentos eruption
FP category for this image
Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Sciences/Others
Creator
Michael Murphy
  • Support as nominator --Omg whatever (talk) 21:53, 17 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support I put an FP category in the nomination above; it has an animation of a water droplet and that's the closest representation I could find to help me locate the right cat. Judging from the second picture on the article, I'm guessing this was photographed as the foam was dying down? I was doing this with my little cousins last summer and the explosion was incredibly quick. I find the picture visually interesting and while the framing could have been a bit better, I think the photographer was undoubtedly unable to know which side the foam would spill on. So a centered frame is probably the best way to go. Almost too tight of a crop. But definitely a picture that will draw readers in to the article. – Kerαunoςcopiagalaxies 22:20, 17 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]