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No bursting for these record-breaking bubbles

By tinkering with the formula for soap bubbles, scientists create an orb that lasts more than a year.
A liquid water and glycerol bubble at 33 days old.

A 33-day-old bubble owes its longevity, in part, to a coating of plastic microparticles. Credit: Roux et al. Phys. Rev. Fluids/APS (2022)

Soap bubbles with a few extra ingredients can retain their structure for up to 465 days — more than 200,000 times longer than ordinary bubbles1.

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Nature 602, 10 (2022)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-022-00172-w

References

  1. Roux, A., Duchesne, A. & Baudoin, M. Phys. Rev. Fluid https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevFluids.7.L011601 (2022).

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