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Wednesday, January 18, 2012

Bubbles II

bubble grid

A raft of bubbles observed one day while doing the dishes. For some reason, many bubbles of equal size appeared. Here they have arranged themselves in a crystal. A few impurities (bubbles with a different size) cause crystal defects.

Bubbles have actually been used to study and visualize the physics of crystals. Here some videos, and an early article about the technique by Bragg.

4 comments:

  1. siisti, det ser ut som ett päron :D

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    1. Jag såg det inte innan du sa, men nu ser jag också ett päron där :)

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  2. Fachinerande köksfysik!

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    1. vad gör man inte för att skuta upp diskandet till lite senare...

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