soap film

If, instead of a cubic frame, another frame were dipped into the liquid soap, such as a tetrahedron, the same stable soap film structure would always come from the soap solution.

Consider a perfectly flat disk of soap film, for example, that extends so far over the horizon that its boundary can't be seen.

One can't truly imitate the action of a flag in wind with a thread in soap film, which is nearly two dimensional.

The team let a filament of silk extend from the tip of a tube into a flowing soap film suspended between two vertical nylon wires.

In 1988, the famous cobbled street where the actors of the 39-year-old soap film their outdoor scenes was opened to the public.

The technique used to stir the soap film grabbed my attention.

Using a soap film that mimics the atmosphere of Earth or other planets (SN: 8/22/98, p.118), physicists now have measured how much energy a thin sheet of turbulent fluid gives up to those types of losses.

In the iridescent eddies of a soap film, scientists see a parallel to the whirling flows of Earth's thin coating of atmosphere and oceans.

It's related to the shape of a soap film stretched across a bent ring.

Like a soap film stretched on a wire frame, these surfaces span the smallest possible area with equal pressure on each side.

"It's very hard to tell whether you're on the soap film or in one of the holes."

Like a glistening soap film stretched across a wire frame, this figure's surface covers the least possible area within the helix defining its edge.

Scientists can create near-perfect froths by using a syringe to blow uniform bubbles into a soap film.

The surface of a glistening soap film tightly stretched across a closed wire loop, of the type kids use to blow soap bubbles, is the smallest possible area that can span the loop.

An elastic soap film enclosing a parcel of air stretches only as far as it must to balance the air pressure inside.