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Surface Tension, Not Gravity, Drives Viscous Bubble Collapse (2 of 9)

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Surface Tension, Not Gravity, Drives Viscous Bubble Collapse (2 of 9)

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A viscous bubble film with sufficiently large viscosity, will collapse under the force of surface tension and adopt a wrinkling pattern along its periphery. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the 7 Aug., issue of Science, published by AAAS. The paper, by A.T. Oratis at Boston University in Boston, MA, and colleagues was titled, "A new wrinkle on liquid sheets: Turning the mechanism of viscous bubble collapse upside down." view more 

Credit: <p>Oliver McRae


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