Talk:Soap bubble

message: Made some changes to the first paragraph. Kernel geek (talk) 08:44, 7 August 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Para 1 rewrite

message: Kernel geek (talk) 11:00, 12 January 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Made some grammar changes

message: I just read about an inventor using 10+ years inventing colored soap bubbles. They're schedualed for release Febuary 2006 called Zubbles (www.zubbles.com)
The story I read: http://www.popsci.com/popsci/science/0a03b5108e097010vgnvcm1000004eecbccdrcrd.html
:yah, already an entry at Zubbles. :)  --Quiddity 19:16, 28 November 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  New colored bubbles 

message: i heard on NPR a few months ago about a guy who just invented solid color bubbles. he said they'd be for sale starting this summer or spring. how can i get more info? Kingturtle 02:14, 22 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Zubbles! :)  --Quiddity 03:36, 22 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  color bubbles 

message: (Ignore the deletion of the bottom of the page this is a glitch in Wikipedia)
I reverted this edit because it was a fact changes that didn’t seem like it was true.
#One can make a bubble out of pure substances other than water 
#The air pressure in the bubble can't decrees due to temperature because it was blown at that temperature and has noting to do with touching a surface.  Maybe somebody should expand on that. 
*This sounds like Supercooling. Simular to Supersaturation or Superheating And the premis behind Ice-nine.--E-Bod 23:56, 1 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Fact change that doesn't seem right 

message: Under this site you can find some informations about Guiness Records related with soap bubble. I suggest to expand this article about these records. Visor 12:13, 3 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Guiness Records 

message: One of the formulae given is
* 100 g sugar
* 2 to 3 tablespoons salt
* 1.4 L water (distilled water is better)
* 150 ml dish washing detergent
* 12 ml glycerin
While most of the components are explaied earlier, there is no explanation why salt is an improvement.
(Going metric for the rest of the formulae would also be useful for the world outside the US.)
--12:36, 24 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Salt in bubble solution 

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thread_title: Fair use rationale for Image:Zubble.JPG

message: I don't believe the several-times-repeated minimum area bit.
Clearly this isn't true for bubbles (its min area for a given volume).
Observationally, it isn't true for cylindrical films supported by circles above and below (they bow in at the middle; I think I understand this thinking about balance of forces: if the film *was* cylindrical the up-and-down forces would cancel in the middle but the around-forces would both be pulling inwards, and it would bow in. And indeed it does).
William M. Connolley 23:04, 11 July 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I'm five years late here, but the minimal surface connecting two circles does bow at the middle, just like a soap bubble: Catenoid. The minimal surface article explains that a minimal surface has a mean curvature of zero. Basically, the balancing of forces you described leads to a surface with a mean curvature of zero. If the mean curvature of a soap bubble was not zero, forces would be in imbalance. 209.131.76.183 (talk) 18:15, 9 July 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Minimum area? 

message: I want to add a link and sentence regarding a photograph recently taken of a soap bubble bursting. this article link is from a respected UK newspaper, the Telegraph. just wanted to mention this. thanks. --Steve, Sm8900 (talk) 19:42, 14 July 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: I personally think that it's not worth including. All that we could add is 'someone took a photo of a bursting bubble'. The news story is from the 'weird news' section of the website, and doesn't give a hint as to why this is worth reporting - is it the first time someone has achieved this? Furthermore, the story claims the shot had been taken with a high speed camera, which is incorrect. According to the creators flickr posting , a Nikon D90 DSLR was used. Rror (talk) 22:39, 14 July 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: hmmm. sorry, no, it's the photo itself which i think people would find interesting. it provides an interesting insight into the physics of bubbles in an accessible way. and if we don't link to it, there will be no way for others to find it. --Steve, Sm8900 (talk) 13:37, 15 July 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Ah, so you mean like this: WP:LINKFARM? Rror (talk) 16:31, 15 July 2009 (UTC)
replies: text:  :-) Errrm, no, I mean a small fact which adds some value to an interesting article. I think this is rather beneficial. --Steve, Sm8900 (talk) 15:40, 16 July 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Hi. so far, it appears that we have not received any further response to this discussion. if no further replies are received, I hope to add this text within the next few days. thanks. --Steve, Sm8900 (talk) 15:59, 21 July 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  proposal for article text idea. 

message: "Soap bubbles usually last for only a few moments and then burst either on their own or on contact with another object." - there are no commas in this sentence, where they are required.
:No commas are required in this sentence.04:50, 6 October 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Commas 

message: There is a gallery of several diagrams with accompanying text in the "Interference and reflection" section, which sticks out of the margin on the page.  Since it has so much text with it, I thought maybe it should be formatted differently, anyway.  Any ideas? B7T (talk) 15:30, 28 June 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Since nobody's suggested any other ideas, I went ahead and made the gallery narrower.  This does make the text of the diagrams a bit less readable (although I can still read them personally), but they were already fairly small, and people can click on the images to see them larger, anyway.  I still don't think this is ideal.  It might look better if it was more like the section just above it, with paragraphs and floated images, and given its own section heading or subheading; or maybe it should be merged altogether with that section, with text of the captions integrated with that text. B7T (talk) 14:35, 1 February 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Gallery formatting 

message: I inserted the picture FrozenSoapBubble.jpg to the section "Freezing". The picture was taken at -17°C, but the text claims that this happens only at temperatures below -25°C. I did some internet seaching and found someon claiming, this happens at temperatures below -10°C (1st link, German language). 
Since German is my native language, I inserted  a section "Gefrorene Seifenblasen" (Frozen soap bubbles) in "Seifenblase" (Soap bubbles) in German Wikipedia:
wich my attempt of a translation
The Englisch section here reads
This is very different. I seached the history of "Soap bubble", but the temperatures were insertey by IP users. There is a 5 month old "citation needed". Should I replace this with the paragraph above?
Can anyone improve my paragraph to be proper English? -- Mmru (talk) 19:23, 8 April 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Frozen soap bubble temeperatures 

message: It would be nice to include the history of making bubbles with a device like a bubble wand or bubble pipe. How long ago was this first discovered?50.205.142.50 (talk) 04:30, 29 June 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  History 

message: Soap Bubbles are caused due to surface tension. Fluids do not have that much surface tension required to make bubbles. When soap or any or fluid containing a higher surface tension, is added to the fluid i.e,water, a d when air come in co tact with the solution it produces bubbles. Bubbles generate a magnetic field and they can be controlled by air. For example(what happened with me): Blow a bubble let it rest in air for some time. When it is about 1-1.5 inches above the ground generate air using your hands and you'll observe that the direction in which you move your hand the bubble will also move(make sure that your hand doesn't touch the bubble and it should be at a distance of 5-6 centimeters. Michael Ferrade (talk) 06:45, 3 November 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: Ferrade: your claims are, imho, wrong. Please provide peer-reviewed citations. Thanks. 207.155.85.22 (talk) 19:29, 21 March 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Soap Bubbles 

message: The article needs a heavy rewrite. I'm old-fashioned so it seems to me that describing ONE (isolated) soap bubble should precede the discussion of merged bubbles. It also seems to me that a discussion of the (arguably) two prominent physically observed characteristics, shape and color, ought to come first - ALONG WITH THEIR CAUSES. The interference colors are sorta discussed but without discussing WHY they (obviously and visually) change rapidly, the reader is left with words instead of understanding.(hint: drainage and evaporation.) I have no problem with a discussion of a liquid film preceding discussion of a soap bubble. Or discussion of a spherical film. The problem that I have is that many, if not most soap bubbles are NOT spheres, and even if we separate the bubbles existing on liquid or solid surfaces (clearly NOT spheres!!), a bubble moving thru the air will only be approximately spherical (depending on the forces (air currents, etc.) on it. If I were doing it, I'd start with a soap bubble aloft and describe it as approximating a sphere as (some of) the liquid in the film drains and evaporates. And then I'd move on to the 'molecular' nature of the film wall. Introduction of curvature, etc. *should* be delayed because they're simply not necessary until merged bubbles, foams, and semi-spherical bubbles on surfaces are discussed (later!). And don't forget that as a bubble is "blown" its shape may oscillate!! Easy to understand (conservation of momentum), but outside surface tension/energy theory.207.155.85.22 (talk) 20:11, 21 March 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Shape