About neutrally buoyant particles, popcorn, and more bubbles
When you see all our pretty images of currents and swirling eddies and everything, what you actually see are the neutrally buoyant particles that get lit by the laser in…
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Getting rid of bubbles in our jet
Sometimes the devil is in the details… On our first day at the Coriolis platform in Grenoble, I took a picture of the “source” in our experiments (see above): The plastic…
A string of bubbles
Have you ever noticed champagne bubbles that form as a string right in the middle of the glass and hardly anywhere else? This leads to the very cool pattern you…
Reading the water
Just because it’s fun! :-) I’ve mentioned before that I tend to stare at water when nobody else seems to find anything interesting to look at. So just because I’m…
Bubble size depending on pressure
More playing with a vacuum pump. In this post, we talked about how decreasing the pressure on water can make dissolved gases come out of solution. But what happens if…
Gases dissolved in water
A simple experiment to show that there are really gases dissolved in water. Luckily, my parents like to play at least as much as I do. So when I got…