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It's Beautiful: Ice Crystals Forming On A Soap Bubble

March 1, 2013 / bubbles, cold as ice, crystals, experiment, freezing, i love bubbles, ice, neato, no thank you, one time i got my little cousins a bottle of edible bubbles and the next time i didn't but still told them they were edible and kept watching them wince when they ate them it was great, soap, that's too cold, why you no pop?, winter

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This is a short video from Sweden of ice crystals beginning to form on a soap bubble in -30°C (-22°F) temperatures. Sure it would be cool to do yourself, but the only experiment you'll see me running when it's that f***ing cold is how long I can stay under the covers.

Hit the jump for the video.

Thanks to Shack Janklin, who saves all his bubble-blowing for the summertime. Hell yeah, let's have a watermelon seed-spitting contest.

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  • This is really nice to see the crystal forming on a soap bubble. I am glad to see the geeky stuff.

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