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Playing with Liquid Foams: Learning Physical Chemistry

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Hernán Ritacco

Departamento de Química-Física I, Facultad de Ciencias Químicas, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, 28040 Madrid, Spain

J. Chem. Educ., 2008, 85 (12), p 1667

DOI: 10.1021/ed085p1667

Publication Date (Web): December 1, 2008

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Abstract

Who has never played with soap bubbles? They are so beautiful and amazing, they have a perfect spherical shape and surprising tints. Foams are structures of bubbles of an incredible complexity and they are a perfect system to stimulate students' interest in the chemistry and physics of surface phenomena. In this article I propose a simple experiment that illustrates the Young–Laplace law using foams and lasers.

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Graduate Education / Research

Keywords (Domain):

Laboratory Instruction

Keywords (Pedagogy):

Hands-On Learning / Manipulatives

Keywords (Subject):

Colloids

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