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What do you get when you combine bubbles with extremely cold weather? Awesome videos of course. Here are a few interesting facts: Soap bubbles blown into air that is below a temperature of −15 °C (5 °F) will freeze when they touch a surface. The air inside will gradually diffuse out, causing the bubble to crumble under its own weight. Continue reading to see more.

5. Outdoors

At temperatures below about −25 °C (−13 °F), bubbles will freeze in the air and may shatter when hitting the ground.

4. Fun

When a bubble is blown with warm air, the bubble will freeze to an almost perfect sphere at first, but when the warm air cools, and a reduction in volume occurs, there will be a partial collapse of the bubble. A bubble, created successfully at this low temperature, will always be rather small; it will freeze quickly and will shatter if increased further.

3. Numbers

Soap bubbles are physical illustrations of the complex mathematical problem of minimal surface. They will assume the shape of least surface area possible containing a given volume.

2. Shattered


1. The Big Freeze


This entry was posted on 02/27/2013 03:00am and is filed under Science, Video .
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