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Why Freezing Soap Bubbles Move Their Own Ice Crystals
Freezing releases heat. But how can that set ice crystals inside a soap bubble in motion?
Follow the snow-globe effect: from released heat to surface-tension differences and the crystals carried along by the flow.
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The outdoor footage shows real processes; it is not a temperature measurement of the laboratory experiments described. The narration and music were generated synthetically.
Sources & footage credits
Science sources
- Ahmadi et al., How soap bubbles freeze, Nature Communications (2019); open-access full text.
- OpenStax: Phase Change and Latent Heat.
Real footage
- Aaron Burden / Pexels: Water bubble slowly freezing.
- Pixabay via Pexels: Water bubble crystallizing.
- Lorie Shaull: A freezing soap bubble in McGregor, Minnesota, CC BY 2.0. Excerpts selected, cropped vertically and re-edited; original audio not used.
- Pexels licence.
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