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Surface tension holds soap bubbles together in tight spherical shape
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How Come?
Surface tension holds soap bubbles together in tight spherical
shape
By KATHY WOLLARD
Los Angeles Times Syndicate
Monday, July 3, 2000
"Why are bubbles round?" asked "bluesky1," via e-mail.
Rain drops falling on your head, insects striding across a pond,
beads of mercury rolling across the floor from a broken glass
thermometer -- all of these are clues to the shimmery shape of soap
bubbles.
Did you ever make a water balloon? As the wat...
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