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It was to be one of the biggest science experiments ever seen yet there was not a bunson burner or test tube in sight.
Around 1,500 students kitted out in waterproof ponchos discovered exactly what happens when you drop a mint sweet into a bottle of Coca Cola, in an attempt to break a world record.
The students, from Belgium, tried to...