Bubbles form when surface tension is reduced by adding substances like dish soap to water; the addition of sugar or glycerin further strengthens bubble walls, allowing for larger and more durable bubbles that can even be nested inside each other, while static electricity can cause bubbles to move without direct contact.
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Bubbles: A rainy day science experiment
Added:the rain and snow headed our way this might be the perfect indoor activity for your weekend today we get to use the kitchen for a science experiment I'm so glad that Adam and Paige are back with us what are we doing today guys we are going to make our very own bubbles a bubble in a bubble but before we do our science experiment first it' be all right if we learned a little bit about the science behind it please so as we know when you take a straw and you blow bubbles into something like water you get a little bit of B of bubbles but you don't get very many and they don't stand around for very long and that's because water has a very high surface tension but if we add things like our soap that can help lower the surface tension which can help us get bigger and stronger Bubbles and then if we add even more things like our sugar or glycerin we can get even stronger bubbles that are bigger and stronger so what you're going to need to make them is about a cup of water 2 tbsp of dish soap and 1 tbsp of sugar and then we also added some cerol that makes the bubbles A Little Bit Stronger then we also had to have some glitter too why not why not so and then you're also going to need a straw and a spoon all you have to do is add it to the water and then use our spoons and Stir It Up okay does it matter what type of soap you use page dish soap works the best ooh that totally changed the color of it yes it's like gold yellow a color experiment too yeah now you're just going to want to take a little bit of your bubble mixture and put it on a table now you're going to take your straw and you're going to dip it into your bubble mixture and when you do that you want to make sure that it gets all nice and saturated on the end then you're going to take your straw and make sure you blow out do not suck in that would be very very gross blow out fa enough blow out and Adam what happens when you blow it of your straw I'll have to show ready there we go there we go oh my gosh and make sure you blow it again don't drink the bubbles for everyone that home and then once you get one bubble you can try and get of course it works for you and not for me the science knows as we can see we can get bubbles inside our bubbles there we go there nice job [Laughter] finally okay how are you getting a bubble inside the bubble so what we do is we take our straw and we poke it through the first bubble and in this case since I got a second poke it through the second and then you blow into it just like the first one oh my gosh a bubble inside of a bubble three that's really cool and it's so simple and then we have one more cool thing and all you need is your bubble solution and some balloons so what we're going to do is we're going to use something called static electricity to move the bubble without touching it because if we try to touch it it'll poke by itself I think I can show here rub it all over your head so rub it all over your head or your brother's head or your sister's head or your dog's head oh Bo yes here we go oh yeah oh my gosh hey yes otherwise too you can have a dancing bubble too I kind of like the dancing bubble bubble dance party speaking of science it's kind of science fair time right now yeah we just had the regional science fair it was on February 28th da I got first place in the entire High School Division for the science fa congratulations in northern Minnesota for the regional science yes for sure how awesome is that well thank you guys so much was always fun when you come I had more struggles blowing those bubbles than it shows my very kind editor took out my uh my pain
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