Definition of soap bubble
: a hollow iridescent globe formed by blowing a film of soapsuds (as from a pipe)
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Others, like Julia Manhire, stepped a little closer and giggled as Askew smiled, then enclosed her from head to shoulder inside a soap bubble.
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For more info: PASSAGE: TBD SCIENCE: Bubbles There is something magical about soap bubbles - floating, fleeting, iridescent orbs that defy gravity, and whose beauty masks their complexity.
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Shen and his team found a very complex set of fluid dynamics that govern how the soap bubbles form, evolve and eventually pop.
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The glass virtuoso James Carpenter used slender steel cables to suspend an ultraclear wall — then the largest of its kind — that seemed to float like a soap bubble between the shops and the street.
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Bracken said of his events, which also include pillow fights and soap bubble battles.
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The machine blows perfectly spherical soap bubbles, one at a time, that drift down onto a field of buzzing and sparking electrified wire.
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Ever wonder what colors the surface of oily rain puddles and soap bubbles?
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