Bubbles! We all know how fascinating they are, evoking happy memories of blowing and chasing the mystical orbs with our friends. A bubble’s fragile nature, beautiful rainbow colors, and ability to soar through the sky make them universally fascinating among kids.
What is the science behind (or inside) a bubble? Bubbles can provide a fun way to study science concepts such as elasticity, surface tension, chemistry, light, and even geometry. Your students can engage in processes such as observation, experimentation, investigation, and discovery, simply by studying bubbles.
For starters, here is a fun demonstration that you can perform as you explain some of the science of bubbles. Follow the recipe at the end of this article to make some super strong bubbles for your act. Wearing a clown suit is optional.
Blow a bubble, get a few laughs. Then talk about what makes a bubble.
Bubbles are just air wrapped in soap film. Soap film is made from soap and water (or other liquid). The outside and inside surfaces of a bubble consist of soap molecules. A thin layer of water lies between the two layers of soap molecules, sort of like a water sandwich with soap molecules for bread. They work together to hold air inside.
Create a bubble that stretches out using a large wand (that you can make from a piece of wire). Whoosh it through the air so the bubble follows and grows behind it. Then, with great drama, let the bubble go. Give the students a chance to note what happens to it before it pops.
Why is a bubble round? Bubbles can stretch and become all kinds of crazy looking shapes. But if you seal a bubble by flipping it off your wand, the tension in the bubble skin shrinks to the smallest possible shape for the volume of air it contains...
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...n poke your straw back inside the bubble and blow another bubble. By now you should be super awesome in their minds.
Why didn’t the bubble pop? The bubble just wraps itself around anything that is wet, filling in the hole that would have been made.
There is a lot more to know about bubbles. Hopefully your amazing demonstration will get your students interested in learning more about the science of bubbles!
The formula for awesome bubbles:
1 cup liquid dish soap like Joy or Dawn (not "ultra")
6 cups distilled water inside a clean container that has a lid
1 tablespoon glycerin OR 1/4 cup light corn syrup
Pour the dish soap into the water and mix it without letting bubbles form (that's for later!). Put the glycerin or corn syrup into the mix and stir. You can use it right away, but some bubble-lovers recommend covering and letting the bubble mix sit overnight.
In 1928, the perfect recipe for bubble gum was invented by Walter Diemer. Prior to Walter’s discovery, there were many attempts to create bubble gum. There were bubble gum recipes before Walter’s, but the gum was way too wet and couldn’t keep a form. Being an accountant
Thorough analysis of the graph displayed enough evidence suggesting that an increase in substrate concentration will increase the height of bubbles until it reaches the optimum amount of substrate concentration, resulting in a plateau in the graphs (figure 2). Hence; supported the hypothesis.
Busy Bubbles is a smallish building considering all of the activity that goes on inside. The first thing you notice as you approach the building, are the standard car wash stalls. The functional appearance of the inside isn’t really surprising until you start to look around. The ordered green and white design on the wall seems a little at odds with the funky mismatched furniture, and the hodgepodge message board. Any one need a used truck or a new kitten? Maybe you would like to work out of your home? Or apply to be a foster care family? This board will cover any of your needs. The room appears a bit sterile, but there are little areas where you can’t miss the touch of humanity. Don’t forget to check the lost and found basket before you leave.
Thus Sealed Air is situated at a critical standpoint. It can either continue to deal exclusively in the manufacture of high-end coated bubbles emphasizing performance over price, or segment the market by introducing an inferior, inexpensive uncoated bubble. To this end, this report will analyze the industry, competition, and company internal environment to assess the viability of targeting this low-end market segment. A strategic marketing plan for launching an uncoated product will follow.
5. In light of this experiment, can you offer any advice to children in how to create a device that will keep an egg from breaking when thrown off of their school’s
2) Have students color and glue onto construction paper pre cut into squares or circles of different colors. (Use square shape for living and circle for nonliving).
Bubble gum made the Guinness Book of World Records, with the largest bubble ever made measuring 22 inches in diameter. The greater the molecular weight of the gum, the stronger is the film, and the larger the bubble that can be blown. On the other hand, increasing the molecular weight or size also tends to make the gum more difficult to chew. A technical breakthrough in 1999 allowed manufacturers to create uniquely textured bubble gum by using soft candy or toffee manufacturing equipment. The resulting bubble gum is similar to chewy candy, but lacking the stickiness.
Take two tea spoons of baking soda in a bowl and put water in it. Keep on pouring a little quantity of water in it.
In this experiment, the calcium carbonate was in the form of marble chips. The calcium carbonate reacted with hydrochloric acid when the acid was poured into marble chips. Due to calcium carbonate’s higher reactivity, it displaced hydrogen in the hydrochloric acid. As a result, products of calcium chloride, carbon dioxide and water were formed. As the chemical reaction occurred, the water in the measuring cylinder was displaced and gas bubbles that were blowing out represented carbon dioxide.
We can see oxygen bubbles being let through the glass tube into the beaker. This shows the decomposition of H2O2 . Start the stopwatch and also start counting the no. of bubbles produced. 4) Note down the results for every minute, up to 5 minutes. 5)
3rd create wells: put a comb template in middle of the tray; wait until the mixture becomes solid. After,
There also two type of Looners, which are poppers and non-poppers. Poppers as the name state tend to bust the balloon during or after the sex act with whatever. (McAwesome) Non- Poppers tend to use the balloons for multiple sex acts but keep them to the bust on their own. They tend to be more protective of their balloon.
(Galvin 1968) as a result the wave overturns or breaks resulting in the entrapment of air which produces an abundance of bubbles.
1. Fill a bowl halfway with water. Add a small amount of dish soap to the water.