Coloured bubbles!

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Sometimes I wonder why students can claim science isn't fun....

http://www.popsci.com/popsci/science/0a03b5108e097010vgnvcm1000004eecbccdrcrd.html

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The 11-Year Quest to Create Disappearing Colored Bubbles
Chemical burns, ruined clothes, 11 years, half a million dollars—it's not easy to improve the world's most popular toy. Yet the success of one inventor's quest to dye a simple soap bubble may change the way the world uses color
 
Yeah, read that one.

The guy used NITRIC acid to try to dye a SOAP BUBBLE!

Ouch!

The dye they use is pretty neat, though. A lactose ring that opens when exposed to heat or pressure, rendering the dye colorless.
 
Yeah, just found it here:

Once he tried nitric acid, a toxic chemical that gives off red fumes at room temperature. "I got it making a really cool bubble, but it could've killed somebody," he recalls. "It ate through clothes." :eek:
 
Kiless said:
Sometimes I wonder why students can claim science isn't fun....

http://www.popsci.com/popsci/science/0a03b5108e097010vgnvcm1000004eecbccdrcrd.html

POPSCI EXCLUSIVE
The 11-Year Quest to Create Disappearing Colored Bubbles
Chemical burns, ruined clothes, 11 years, half a million dollars—it's not easy to improve the world's most popular toy. Yet the success of one inventor's quest to dye a simple soap bubble may change the way the world uses color
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That was a cool link. Thanks
 
Kiless said:
Yeah, just found it here:

Once he tried nitric acid, a toxic chemical that gives off red fumes at room temperature. "I got it making a really cool bubble, but it could've killed somebody," he recalls. "It ate through clothes." :eek:
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Sounds like a toy that will make gazillions.... :D
 
Yeah, I found it a couple of months back. It's gonna be huge. And it's something that will sell steadily for decades. (Modulo the Singularity or an ELE.)
 
They look so much fun.

I'm glad I'm not a kid any longer - I'd have to pester like crazy to get a bottle or two but as an adult I can just buy them!

Also the spin-offs sound very intriguing.
 
Darat said:
They look so much fun.

I'm glad I'm not a kid any longer - I'd have to pester like crazy to get a bottle or two but as an adult I can just buy them!

Also the spin-offs sound very intriguing.
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And they come in black. I see hundreds of thousands of Goths making this their new favorite toy.
 
luchog said:
And they come in black. I see hundreds of thousands of Goths making this their new favorite toy.
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C'mon, kids, think as only a strip club bouncer can. Think vividly colored outfits that can be made to *ahem* suddenly disappear. Move over Victoria. We gotta much hotter secret. We're talking totally planned costume failure, something the world has *er* never before *um* seen. :D
 
Kiless said:
Yeah, just found it here:

Once he tried nitric acid, a toxic chemical that gives off red fumes at room temperature. "I got it making a really cool bubble, but it could've killed somebody," he recalls. "It ate through clothes." :eek:
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Sounds like something the Joker would use against Robin.
 
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