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About neutrally buoyant particles, popcorn, and more bubbles

September 20, 2017

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…

Getting rid of bubbles in our jet

September 12, 2017

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

April 12, 2016

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

April 22, 2014

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

April 16, 2014

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

April 14, 2014

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…

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About neutrally buoyant particles, popcorn, and more bubbles

Getting rid of bubbles in our jet

A string of bubbles

Reading the water

Bubble size depending on pressure

Gases dissolved in water

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