Got a bubble-maker for my birthday (I’m just a big kid really).
“Continue reading” for smoky and coloured varieties.

Diorama in a bubble above. Note the thinning film on the top of the bubble which has stopped reflecting light. Reflection shows my son and I plus some trees.

Above shows a smoke generator driving the bubble generator giving smoke filled bubbles.

They otherwise behave just like an ordinary bubble – except they vanish in a “puff of smoke”. How cool is that.

You can even make an orange smoke filled bubble using a segment of a marine flare. Except it caught fire and sent flames through my smoke generator like the afterburner in a jet engine.

Things to do: Look for the “invisible patches” in a smoke filled bubble. Will those patches be seen by tangential light such as with a laser on the edge?

Related pages

  Smoke rings

Try something else

  Australia’s Got Talent

External

Soap bubbles – Wiki
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Photo Date: March 21, 2009