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title: "How It Works: Soap Bubbles"
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# How It Works: Soap Bubbles

Admin | July 14, 2020

**A soap bubble is **a very thin film of soap water that forms a hollow sphere with an iridescent surface. A bubble can exist because the surface layer of a liquid (usually water) has a certain surface tension, which causes the layer to behave somewhat like an elastic sheet.

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