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    POP!

    Sep 01, 2020 4 minutes
    text © 2020 by Rebecca E. Hirsch

    LET’S BLOW SOME BUBBLES! How long has it been since you spent an afternoon creating and watching these delicate globes as they float and float and float and . . . pop! Bubbles are not just fun, they’re terrific for doing tricks and for scientific experimentation. Bubbles are models of scientific principles, following precise laws of mathematics, physics, and chemistry.

    What Is a Bubble?

    A bubble is soap film wrapped around a pocket of air. The soap film is made of three layers, much like a sandwich. The outside and inside layers (the slices of

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